Daniel Ricciardo's eighth Grand Prix victory is arguably his sweetest, his first as a non-Red Bull driver and with it ending a nine-year winless spell for McLaren. The aftermath of Monza 2021 has been all about the Hamilton-Verstappen collision, with McLaren and Ricciardo's achievement overshadowed by the shenanigans of the two title contenders. Even if the two title contenders had survived, they would have been hard-pressed to beat the Aussie in a race he felt he ‘owned' from Friday onwards. From the moment he took the lead at the start of the race, with an audacious move from second on the grid, he seemed destined to win in Italy where, poetically, the Ricciardo family originated...
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