Ricciardo will hold Renault boss Abiteboul to F1 podium tattoo bet

Daniel Ricciardo says he and Renault F1 team boss Cyril Abiteboul will honour their tattoo bet following his podium finish at the Eifel GP.
Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) Renault F1 Team celebrates his third position on the podium.
Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) Renault F1 Team celebrates his third position on the podium.
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Daniel Ricciardo says he and Renault ﷽Formula 1 team boss Cyril Abiteboul will honour their tattoo pled⭕ge following his podium finish at the Eifel Grand Prix.

Ricciardo🌱 claimed Renault’s first podium in nine yea♓rs on Sunday by finishing third at the Nurburgring and subsequently won his podium bet with Abiteboul.

The Australian placed�▨� a wager with Abiteboul earlier this season that if he finished on the podium then they would proceed to get matching tattoos.

After Ricciardo stood on the rostrum for the fi🍌rst time since win🅷ning in Monaco in 2018, he will now choose a German-themed tattoo design for his Renault boss.

"It's real, it's go෴ing to happen," said Ricciardo. "We'll have to do some thinking now, 𝄹but probably it will be something to do with me, but I think with a German flavour.

"This is𝕴 obviously the place we did it. A l𝄹ittle tip of the hat to something traditional in Germany as well."

While Ricciardo geﷺts to choose the design, Abiteboul will have final say on location and the size of the tattoo.

“He gets to choose the design and I get to choose the location and the size,” Abiteboul explained. “Sꦆize matters! I’m laughing because Daniel is leaving [the motorhome] and size matters Daniel!

“As long as I’ve got t𝓰he size I think I can cope with, get away with ꦬany design.”

Abiteboul stressed he is a “man of my word” but just needs some time to decide upon the important finer details before he g⛄et🐲s inked.

“I remember that night in Silv🧸erstone, Thursday evening in Silverstone last year, where Daniel was showing me a new tattoo that he had,” he added. “I asked him ‘how do you get there? What’s the sort of mental journeꦿy to get to that kind of tattoo?’

“He told me ‘I was just walking in front of that tattoo place and I thought let’s do one’. OK, alrig꧅ht.

“So, I thought let’s do something proper. So, if you do your podium, I’ll do one, and I’m a man of my word. I just need ♓a bit of time to decide the size and the location.”

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