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Ricciardo reflects on moment Marko contacted him about F1 debut

Article To news overview © McLaren Daniel Ricciardo has been reminiscing about the moment he received a call from Dr Helmut Marko about his Formula 1 debut back in 2011. The Australian will mark his 200th Grand Prix at the forthcoming Belgian Grand Prix, 10 years on from when he was given his first opportunity in F1 with the HRT team at Silverstone. Given that he was in the Red Bull programme, Ricciardo had expected that his opportunity would come with the then-called Toro Rosso outfit, but learned otherwise when Marko got in touch. "The circumstances were crazy," Ricciardo told the In The Fast Lane podcast. "I was a Toro Rosso reserve driver that year. I knew there was...
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