Red Bull Australia

Ricciardo started karting at the age of nine and entered numerous karting events since. In 2006, he won a scholarship into the Formula BMW Asian championship with Eurasia Motorsport. In the nineteen race championship, the young Australian took two victories, both at Bira, and also scored a pole position at Zhuhai during his début season where he finished third in the Drivers' Championship with 231 points; 59 off the champion Earl Bamber.

In August that year he was given an outing with Motaworld Racing to race one of their Formula BMW cars at the eighth meeting of the British championship. Despite retiring from the first race, Ricciardo recovered to finish eighth in the second race and took three championship points in his only entry in the British championship. At the end of the year, he entered the Formula BMW World Final with Fortec Motorsport where he finished in fifth position, fourteen seconds off winner Christian Vietoris.

2007 saw the Australian switch categories to Formula Renault with Rp Motorsport, entering the European and Italian championships of the category, although mainly focused on the latter series as he entered fourteen races to the four entries he took in the European championship. He finished the year seventh in the Italian series with 196 points and scoring a podium at Valencia.

The Australian stayed in Formula Renault for a second year in 2008, entering the European and Western European championships. During the mid–part of the season, Ricciardo made his Formula Three début at the Nürburgring, entering SG Formula's Formula Three Euroseries team. Despite only a short amount of experience in the car Ricciardo qualified in eighth for the first race which later converted into sixth in the race after James Jakes and Christian Vietoris stalled on the grid. By the end of the year, the young driver took his first European title in the Western European Cup and finished second in the Eurocup to Finn Valtteri Bottas.

Two Red Bull Junior rookies dominated the 2008 British Formula 3 Championship: Jaime Alguersuari (ESP) took the title; Brendon Hartley (NZL) finished third in the overall standings. The two of them together won no less than ten races.

Daniel Ricciardo, the only Australian in the Red Bull Junior Team, followed in the tracks of these two successful Juniors in 2009. he became the British F3 International Series Champion with 6 wins and 12 podiums. 2010 is shaping up to be just as huge for Ricciardo as he races in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series and is the F1 reserve driver for Red Bull Racing and Toro Rosso.