ricciardo qualified fourth at the malaysian grand prix but moved up to second into turn one, after a collision between sebastian vettel and nico rosberg. he then took the lead late on in the race when leader lewis hamilton retired with an engine failure. after fighting with his red bull teammate verstappen, ricciardo took his first victory of the season. he repeated his "shoey" celebration on the podium, and was able to get team boss christian horner as well as podium sharers verstappen and rosberg to repeat the celebration. ricciardo eventually sealed third in the drivers' championship following a podium finish in mexico. other than sergio pérez, he is the only driver to have been classified in every race of the 2016 season. in fact, save for just two races in which ricciardo equalled the previous year's result, he improved on every other race result from 2015.