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Hamilton and Ricciardo's 'avocado' shtick is everything we need in this raceless F1 week

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Hamilton and Ricciardo's 'avocado' shtick is everything we need in this raceless F1 week

'Ahhhh, Danny Avocado?'

It's only once the Formula 1 campaign finally starts that you truly remember how those barren raceless mid-season weekends feel – like the deserts miss the rain, we believe it was put best by electro-pop group Everything But the Girl in the 90s.

Sorry, where were we…?

Ah yes, missing F1 when a race isn't on – which is the case this weekend, landing slap bang in the middle of the Australian and Bahrain Grands Prix.

Luckily Daniel 'Danny Avocado' and Lewis Hamilton have been on hand to raise the spirits, starting with this from the reigning champion…

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Avocado+Ham????

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So, we all know that Daniel is up for a laugh, right?

Who didn't see this coming?

And in case you've spent the last week or so under several thousand rocks, here's the original…

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