There's a very good chance the name Daniel Ricciardo is on your radar right now.

Not only is the Australian racing driver currently competing in the 2022 FIA Formula One World Drivers Championship for McLaren but he's also starring in Netflix's compelling series, Formula 1: Drive to Survive.

With the Formula One season officially starting last weekend in Bahrain and the fourth season of the docu-reality series returning, here's everything we know about the Aussie sports star.

But first, here's the trailer for Drive to Survive season four. Post continues below.

Daniel Ricciardo grew up in Perth, Western Australia, and it was his dad who got him into motorsport.

"Dad was always passionate about it," Ricciardo, 32, told GQ Australia in 2020.

"Some weekends, I would be at a racetrack in my mum’s arms watching him, so from a very young age, I was exposed to the speed, sound and the smell."

His first experience behind the steering wheel was at an indoor kart track.

"The first thing I thought was just, 'This is freedom,'" he said.

"At seven or eight years old, I was in total control: 'No one can touch me. I am literally free right now.'

"I was in love with that."

Uninterested in school during his final years, Ricciardo focused his attention on racing and entered professional single seater, open-wheel races.

"I was quite immature at school," he told the publication. "I got to 17, and something just clicked – I fully committed to it."

Ricciardo made his track debut behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car when he tested for Red Bull Racing at the young driver's test in 2009.

He was promoted to their F1 team in 2014 and scored three wins in his first year at the top team, before moving to Renault in 2019 and eventually joining McLaren in 2021.

Last year, he won the 2021 Italian F1 Grand Prix.

He admits it's the competition that drives him.

"I am what you see. If I am smiling and laughing, then it is me having a good time and I truly do love and enjoy this, but anything with competition I turn pretty quickly," Ricciardo told The Guardian.

"I was playing Monopoly and Uno over Christmas and I was getting pretty agitated. Anything with competition I change, that’s part of me when something is on the line."