runningmanz wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024, 11:15
Marko praises Dan after the China weekend.
" Ricciardo failed to score his first points of the season in China last week after being taken out by Lance Stroll. But Marko was encouraged by his performance up to that point.
“Daniel Ricciardo had a new chassis available in China and the whole thing was planned from the start because it is our third chassis that we wanted to bring to the track,” Marko told Speed Week. “But of course this change also played into psychology after Daniel’s disappointing performances on the previous weekends.
“Things went much better for Ricciardo in China. I find it unbelievable that Lance Stroll called him an ‘idiot after’ the chequered flag fell. And that he also had to receive a penalty for Miami. This really wasn’t his weekend.”
https://www.racefans.net/2024/04/25/rac ... p-25-04-7/
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Marko wrote more in his column in Speed Week , not only about Daniel but also about Tsunoda.
This isn't from Racefans as you quoted
but from the original source Speed Week:
Helmut Marko: "Yuki Tsunoda's performance in Shanghai was clear: If we look at another Shanghai rookie, Oscar Piastri, we see that
the Australian was half a second to a whole second slower than Lando Norris in the race.
So Shanghai is certainly a track where experience counts, especially as the rookies in the sprint format got even less driving time.
The Racing Bulls perhaps made the mistake of letting Tsunoda drive on hard tires in the only free practice session,
when the track still offered virtually no grip, and Yuki just skidded around on these rollers.
In the race, Tsunoda's lap times were on a par with Ricciardo. He would have had a chance of scoring points,
but Magnussen dashed his hopes."
Translated with DeepL.com
Yuki started on P19 on the soft and Ricciardo on P12 on the Medium. VSC because of Bottas. It became a Red Flag.
Before Piastri had damage he was 38 sec behind Norris (as Marko mentioned) with one more pitstop. Lando hadn't made a pitstop yet.
