Mate's death gives Daniel Ricciardo special motivation for Japanese Grand Prix

By Matthew Clayton
Updated October 8 2015 - 10:13am, first published September 26 2015 - 8:00pm

​Daniel Ricciardo's mood was as dark as the sky that had spent the past 90 minutes dumping buckets of rain on the Suzuka circuit. It was last year's Japanese Formula One Grand Prix and Ricciardo had slithered through the treacherous conditions in his underpowered Red Bull machine to find himself in sight of an unlikely podium finish.

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