Daniel Ricciardo began the Hungarian Grand Prix inside the highest ten.
Nevertheless, the veteran Formulation 1 driver didn’t end there.
Ricciardo started the race on the medium compound and pitted early, coming into the pits on Lap 8 to make the swap to the onerous tire. Nevertheless, that early pit cease noticed Ricciardo emerge amid heavy visitors, and he confronted an uphill combat from there to attempt to get well place on the observe.
Ricciardo gained a number of spots on his second pit cease, however in the end completed outdoors the factors, settling for a P12.
That “lengthy and irritating” afternoon left the Australian driver on the lookout for solutions after the race.
“Right this moment it was a protracted and irritating race,” stated Ricciardo within the workforce’s post-race report. “We didn’t use the tempo we had within the clear air. We had been on the mediums firstly of the race and after only some laps we pitted for brand new hards along with the opposite vehicles who began on softs, popping out in visitors. It’s much more irritating as a result of we had been fast all weekend, and I felt like we’ve got taken ourselves out of the race so early as we couldn’t combat vehicles that had been coming a lot faster on newer [tires].”
VCARB Crew Principal Laurent Mekies conceded that the workforce “obtained it flawed” with Ricciardo on Sunday.
“Sadly, we obtained it flawed with Daniel and pitted him too early in heavy visitors, which misplaced him an opportunity to combat for factors. His tempo had been extraordinarily sturdy all weekend lengthy, and he demonstrated that once more within the closing stint of the race when he was lastly capable of finding some free air and combat his method again,” defined Mekies. “We actually share his frustration, and we are going to study and are available again stronger subsequent week.”
Nevertheless, not all was misplaced for the workforce, as Yuki Tsunoda battled by way of the bruising he suffered in his shunt in qualifying on Saturday to complete up in P9, banking two doubtlessly important factors for the workforce of their combat with Haas for sixth within the Formulation 1 Constructors’ Championship.
Tsunoda praised your complete workforce for placing his RB01 in place to complete within the factors on Sunday after his large accident on Saturday.
“To start with, big because of the mechanics and workforce who spent the night time and this morning repairing my automobile in time for the race. It wasn’t straightforward after such a giant crash and we needed to change a variety of issues, however due to their onerous work we had been capable of rating the factors right this moment – big credit score to the entire workforce,” stated Tsunoda. “I’m very relieved I used to be capable of make up for it after yesterday’s crash and significantly pleased with my [tire] administration. I feel it was a giant race for us, particularly as we had been capable of end forward of our opponents, and it’s an enormous constructive for the approaching races.”
Tsunoda’s two factors imply VCARB now has a six-point lead over Haas, because the grid heads to Belgium for subsequent weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix, the final race earlier than F1’s summer season shutdown.
