Daniel Ricciardo recollects the hilarious time F1 winner Kimi Raikkonen busted him using the Ladies rest room: ‘One day I will clearly show you I am a man’
Transpired in his early days of System 1 Thought he would skip the queue by using the ladies Was humiliated by Raikkonen when caught
Aussie F1 superstar Daniel Ricciardo has revealed the savage minute he was busted by legend Kimi Raikkonen making use of the women’s rest room before a race early in his career.
Talking on Perth radio station 96FM, Ricciardo mentioned there was ordinarily a mad rush to use the toilets before a race.
‘You will not want to wee in a race car or truck,’ he reported.
‘The belts are so restricted and they are pushing in on you and it can be just not entertaining.
‘I tried out not too long ago accomplishing it in a bottle, nup, doesn’t work.
‘Everyone kind of queues up in some cases and because you don’t have a great deal time,.’
Ricciardo spoke about the uncomfortable incident when again in Perth and reported he took the jab from Raikkonen individually
Nonetheless with no female race vehicle drivers in the F1 and a substantial queue outside the house of the men’s toilet, Ricciardo noticed an possibility for the duration of his early times.
‘There was like a girls and a males, and I was like ‘look when you’ve got bought to go, you just go’,’ he said.
‘So I walked into the girls and as I was walking out Raikkonen goes ‘all the girls are in here’ or something like that.
‘He was mainly possessing a jab at me that I’m woman.
‘I was new and the way he variety of said it, he won’t actually chat to any person, I just took it individually.
‘One day I will exhibit you I am a guy.’
Raikkonen and Ricciardo had been all smiles at this press convention in 2018 but the two experienced a number of clashes all through their F1 occupations
Ricciardo on the podium of the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix with Raikkonen and previous rival Sebastian Vettel
It would not be the final time the two drivers locked horns, with Ricciardo beforehand revealing that Raikkonen had blanked him on the paddock.
‘On the grid, I have a tendency to be pretty pleasant with individuals, but if I smile at someone and they blank me — it variety of p***es me off. I choose it personally for sure,’ he advised Esquire in 2020.
‘I try to remember Kimi [Raikkonen] made use of to give me the cold shoulder and I took that personally.
‘I would make a psychological take note of it, and on-monitor if I was at any time sensation generous it was hardly ever going to be in the direction of him.’
During his career, Raikkonen was known for his amazing demeanor and extraordinary racecraft, earning the nickname ‘The Iceman’.
He has gained 21 races, gained 103 podiums, and set 18 fastest laps over the course of his F1 vocation. He announced his retirement from F1 at the conclude of the 2021 year.