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Ricciardo's hunger for victories growing

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Daniel Ricciardo says his hunger for race victories is growing with every race he is unable to win.

This weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix marks one year since Ricciardo last won a race, having triumphed at Spa-Franchorchamps in 2014 after Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg collided. Ricciardo scored his first podium of the season at the Hungarian Grand Prix and he says his own motivation has been growing with each frustrating race.

“You just have to lower your expectations,” Ricciardo said. “I understand this year where we are, so I’m not getting too excited about the thought of winning every race but I think you find different ways of getting motivated.

“I still have a strong fire inside my stomach and if anything that’s getting stronger each race. Every race that passes that I don’t have a chance of winning or even getting on the podium, it’s just making my desire for winning even more.

“At least spraying a bit of champagne at the last race was good, it got a few cobwebs out I guess, so that was a nice little relief. But other than that I think you have to keep enjoying driving, hopefully the result comes and if it doesn’t then keep trying.”

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.