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Daniel Ricciardo races in a simulator at Ford Racing Season Launch in Detroit on January 15, 2026 in Detroit, Michigan | Jeff Schear/Getty Images for Ford

[mvettel]

eyes 👀

[starlighttswift]

I don’t have a snappy caption, (probably cause it’s been a month since I posted?) so here’s Danny and Lando!

[honeylionbaby]

wearing bae's balaclava

[threesmallcrows]

circuit of the americas

[threesmallcrows]

i believe 100% he was written by you

Most recently Daniel had gotten very into "gardening". He got competitive about his cabbages while Max prepared to race the NLS.

Max said vegetables weren't very interesting and Daniel said endurance racing was the epitome of boredom. Max said vegetables weren't even yummy to eat and Daniel said he was going to sic Max's trainer on him, holding his phone up to his chin, joking that he was recording. Max countered he was buying a cow and Daniel laughed and said did he mean a red bull, that he'd like to see Max try to turn a bull into steaks, what was his plan, hit it with the Pista with a knifeblock tied to to the grille, and then that he would choke Max's cow to death with his giant zucchinis, and that segued into an extended monologue about zucchinis and cucumber and eggplants.

"My two perfect erdapfels—that's how you say it, right?"

"No, that's German."

"Oh. What's it in Dutch?"

"...Aardappel."

That night Max complained about the dirt trapped under Daniel's fingernails and Daniel said, "The snail's here too", and then trailed his cock all over Max's shoulders and stomach while Max tried not to giggle.

Max stood in the doorway with his suitcase. He pointed out that by the time he would have gone and done the whole race and flown back Daniel's cabbages would not even have had time to grow one extra leaf. Daniel said that by the time his cabbages grew two new leaves he expected Max to be back with the trophy.

When he kissed him he tasted like fruit, the summer.

For a long time Max had hesitated to get married because he didn't want to be restricted, slowed down, held back; but Daniel never made him stay, even though he also rarely left. Max liked to leave but also coming back. His home was bigger every time he arrived, the cats were fatter, Daniel more tan, like a raisin, more beautiful like raisins, like the sun caught in grapeskins. Worms ate all the figs to bits and still his home was bigger. He came home with the trophy and found all the green tomatoes on the wall had ripened.

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[unamccormack]

I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.

[regionalpancake]

!!!! Today is the only chance we’ll ever have to listen to this absolute banger of apocalyptic fiction on the very day the story is set 😲✨

Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!

(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)

[regionalpancake]

I paused the robot vacuum so I could listen to this 1950’s story predicting the robot vacuum.

[bigdicciardo]

[yolouliu]

I still miss you, Daniel..

[sainz100]

x

[slutforpringles]

Conor Daly speaking about his friendship with Daniel, attending the Indy 500, and partying after the race with Lando and Daniel on the Stacking Pennies podcast

SP: Who'd you compete against? CD: Valtteri Bottas, Carlos Sainz, Dani Kvyat. SP: Danny Ric? You're buddies with him? CD: No. We were really good friends, but he was actually one year ahead of me. So he was in different series, but we were all, like, living near each other in England at that time. ... SP: What's Danny Ric doing these days? CD: Dude, just chilling. I talked to him yesterday. We caught up and he's just, he loves just chilling. It was his birthday last week, and he's like, I just left my phone at my house for like three days. I was like, that's awesome. He said he played padel for three days. I was like, that sounds great. He's a big racquet sports guy now. I think he loves getting away from the mental chaos that is motorsport. SP: He went to the Indy 500 for the first time with you. What was his experience with that? CD: Well, he's coming back [to the Indy 500] next year. I know that. SP: In a fire suit? CD: No, no, no. SP: In a 3XL Dale Earnhardt shirt? CD: Probably that, yeah. Man, he loved it. I think he hadn't been to a racetrack in a long time to actually watch a race. When he goes to some of the Formula One events, he does it for his clothing company, Enchante, and they do events kind of off-site, doesn't really go to the track. And this race, it brought out something in him that he hadn't experienced in a while, like, since he stepped away. He just loved it. SP: Did people lose their mind around him? CD: Oh, it was crazy. We had to get a guy, like a security guy. It was kind of funny. But it was because people love him. And he just wanted to watch some motor racing. And he was in our engineering meetings, just kind of chilling, checking it out. And he loved the immensity of it, the sheer passion that people had for just everything. Because the Indy 500 is so unique from a sporting perspective and I think that locks people in. Like now he follows the sport more, and obviously all of us drivers, we follow everything, because we respect it. And he respects IndyCar a lot. So much so that he's like, I'm scared to do it, which I respect because it's not everyone's wheelhouse. ... SP: Well that's Project 91, right? Do you think Ricciardo, as much as he likes chilling, do you think he would sign up for something like that? CD: That's a great question, man. I think Daniel gets asked every week to do something. Like when I was at Travis's last week, someone was on the phone on speaker talking to Travis about some race. And then Travis said that I was there and that guy was like, can you get Daniel to do a pro two race at Crandon? I don't know, honestly. I think he's just chilling. I could see him doing something eventually with Ford, because he has a really good relationship with Ford. But to be honest, I think he loves, like, just enjoying a bit of life. ... SP: Did you guys hit the streets in Indy at all? CD: Oh, yeah. Man, after the race, and this is what was most disappointing, and I told my fellow IndyCar comrades this. I said, there were more Formula One drivers out after the Indy 500 than there were IndyCar drivers at the bar, at Clayton's Country Bar in Indianapolis. Lando Norris flew in from the Formula One race in Montreal. His race sucked. The car blew up or something. We're at dinner at 10:30, and he texts me, he's like, I'm on my way. I said, what do you mean? He's like, I'm going to be in Indy in an hour. SP: He literally just told his pilot, like, I don't want to go home? CD: No. So apparently, I didn't know this, but McLaren was doing something with him on the Monday after the 500. But I didn't know this. And so I'm at dinner with Daniel, and I said your boy is on his way. And he's like, awesome. And so Lando shows up to Clayton's Country Bar at about 11:30. I go get him at the back door, run him through the kitchen and we drank till like four in the morning there. It was a great time.

[slutforpringles]

Conor Daly speaking about his friendship with Daniel, attending the Indy 500, and partying after the race with Lando and Daniel on the Stacking Pennies podcast

SP: Who'd you compete against? CD: Valtteri Bottas, Carlos Sainz, Dani Kvyat. SP: Danny Ric? You're buddies with him? CD: No. We were really good friends, but he was actually one year ahead of me. So he was in different series, but we were all, like, living near each other in England at that time. ... SP: What's Danny Ric doing these days? CD: Dude, just chilling. I talked to him yesterday. We caught up and he's just, he loves just chilling. It was his birthday last week, and he's like, I just left my phone at my house for like three days. I was like, that's awesome. He said he played padel for three days. I was like, that sounds great. He's a big racquet sports guy now. I think he loves getting away from the mental chaos that is motorsport. SP: He went to the Indy 500 for the first time with you. What was his experience with that? CD: Well, he's coming back [to the Indy 500] next year. I know that. SP: In a fire suit? CD: No, no, no. SP: In a 3XL Dale Earnhardt shirt? CD: Probably that, yeah. Man, he loved it. I think he hadn't been to a racetrack in a long time to actually watch a race. When he goes to some of the Formula One events, he does it for his clothing company, Enchante, and they do events kind of off-site, doesn't really go to the track. And this race, it brought out something in him that he hadn't experienced in a while, like, since he stepped away. He just loved it. SP: Did people lose their mind around him? CD: Oh, it was crazy. We had to get a guy, like a security guy. It was kind of funny. But it was because people love him. And he just wanted to watch some motor racing. And he was in our engineering meetings, just kind of chilling, checking it out. And he loved the immensity of it, the sheer passion that people had for just everything. Because the Indy 500 is so unique from a sporting perspective and I think that locks people in. Like now he follows the sport more, and obviously all of us drivers, we follow everything, because we respect it. And he respects IndyCar a lot. So much so that he's like, I'm scared to do it, which I respect because it's not everyone's wheelhouse. ... SP: Well that's Project 91, right? Do you think Ricciardo, as much as he likes chilling, do you think he would sign up for something like that? CD: That's a great question, man. I think Daniel gets asked every week to do something. Like when I was at Travis's last week, someone was on the phone on speaker talking to Travis about some race. And then Travis said that I was there and that guy was like, can you get Daniel to do a pro two race at Crandon? I don't know, honestly. I think he's just chilling. I could see him doing something eventually with Ford, because he has a really good relationship with Ford. But to be honest, I think he loves, like, just enjoying a bit of life. ... SP: Did you guys hit the streets in Indy at all? CD: Oh, yeah. Man, after the race, and this is what was most disappointing, and I told my fellow IndyCar comrades this. I said, there were more Formula One drivers out after the Indy 500 than there were IndyCar drivers at the bar, at Clayton's Country Bar in Indianapolis. Lando Norris flew in from the Formula One race in Montreal. His race sucked. The car blew up or something. We're at dinner at 10:30, and he texts me, he's like, I'm on my way. I said, what do you mean? He's like, I'm going to be in Indy in an hour. SP: He literally just told his pilot, like, I don't want to go home? CD: No. So apparently, I didn't know this, but McLaren was doing something with him on the Monday after the 500. But I didn't know this. And so I'm at dinner with Daniel, and I said your boy is on his way. And he's like, awesome. And so Lando shows up to Clayton's Country Bar at about 11:30. I go get him at the back door, run him through the kitchen and we drank till like four in the morning there. It was a great time.

[bigdicciardo]

Red Bull Kart Fight 2011 National Final - Istanbul, Turkey

[laura1633]

Proud team principal Max and his proud mum

[bigdicciardo]

Wings for Life: Clay Day 2018

[slutforpringles]

One more of Daniel playing padel in London

[rinador]

Does someone know where this is from ?