Daniel Ricciardo takes a tour around Austin in an electric pickup truck! 🤠

We have arrived in Austin. Everyone loves coming here, but if you want a tour of this place, there is only one man for the job. Danny Picardo, how are you? I'm well. How are you doing? I'm good. This is a good one for you to come back to, right? It's my home away from home, away from home. And we have a custom truck for you. It's a Ford F100, fully electric. Looks good, huh? So, how are you? Let's start with that question. How's the hand? I'm doing good. I've never had a surgery before, anything like that. It's not comfortable, let me just say that much. It's not comfortable, but it is what it is. I was more upset that I got myself in a really good place, also physically. You know, August was my chance to really catch up. You nearly trick yourself sometimes into turning back time. But it's happened. We don't live in a fairytale where I can wind back the clock like it's happened. It's always that same thing. It could be worse. And you can eat food. You just brought me to your favourite sandwich shop. So, why are we not having barbeque? Let's start with that. Because I've had two lots of barbeque already and I haven't even been here 24 hours. Look, I have a lot of favourite places in Austin, but I actually came here the Monday after the race last year. I was, by that point, all barbequed out. So, yeah, I stumbled across this place and it was really good. Alright, let's go. And it's low-key. Okay, I'm going to let you do the ordering as well. I'll pay for it. I don't know if you can get a shot, but there are some very low-key, yet very flashy cowboy boots on under the table here. Black snakeskin cowboy boots. Can we have a reveal of these? We also got a custom little… Honey badger on them. They are custom. Oh my god, they are very special. I hope you're getting a good shot of these. If I lived in Austin, I would… You'd be broke. You know how women are with handbags? I feel at least every woman I've ever known… Mine's shoes, but yeah. Okay, I'll be boots. Oh, it's so soft. Alright, bon appetit. Okay, I'm going in. This is my guilty pleasure. It's fried chicken sandwiches. Wow. This one's legit. Oh my gosh, how good is it? That was an incredible sandwich, thank you. You're very welcome. I'm going to go back there. They do it right over here. Oh my god. They do it right. We've talked about the injury and your recovery and stuff. Was there ever a point in your head where you wondered if you wouldn't make it back? Was there ever a moment that entered? No, no, nah. I think where I'm at now is I still don't have 100% range. Some things I still can't do like I could pre-rake, so I think that's just going to take time. But importantly, I can grip the wheel and I can do that well. Last time you were up against Max, how would the Daniel today deal with that competition? It would be different. I think it would be very different just from probably where we're both at in our career. I always stand by and say I don't regret anything. And look, at the time, of course, everything that was going on, that was what I felt like the best situation for me. But I would say, look, am I happy to be back? And am I happy to be back in that environment with the people that, let's say, got me here? Absolutely. Things are different. I'm also just more mature. I know this isn't a matter of life and death. I put a lot into it, but I'm also a little wiser. There's a bit of a fear sometimes of retirement, and you've kind of had this one objective your whole life. You've woken up every day for the last 20 years to do something. So when that goes, it's like, OK, who am I, I guess? Fortunately, I felt like I was really happy as well on the sidelines. Do I believe I can still win races? Absolutely. Will I be a world champion one day? I would love to say yes, but I honestly don't know. And I can't say that, yeah, it's definitely going to happen. And if I end up winning enough races, which leads to a world title, then hell yeah.