Daniel Ricciardo frustrated: "Hopefully we'll find a huge hole in the car!"
Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciardo cannot explain his current form and is completely in the dark in his analysis of the British Grand Prix
(Motorsport-Total.com) - Daniel Ricciardo has no explanation for his current form in the 2024 Formula 1 season. After finishing 13th in the 2024 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, the Racing Bulls driver is at a loss.
What's more, Ricciardo is practising gallows humor when he says: "Hopefully we'll find a big hole in my car that we've missed so far, but which turns out to be the reason why we were really slow."
Because not much came together for Ricciardo at Silverstone: P15 in qualifying, seven tenths behind teammate
Yuki Tsunoda, and outside the top 10 in the race, although Tsunoda still finished in the points in tenth place with the VCARB 01.
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Yuki did well," says Ricciardo appreciatively. "But as a team we weren't very competitive this weekend. I certainly struggled more in the race. And so far I'm not sure why that was."
Ricciardo says that his cockpit perspective does not match the values on the stopwatch. At Silverstone, for example, he "felt he put in a good lap". "But my engineer told me I was eight tenths of a second behind. I was quite surprised." And Ricciardo has not yet received and/or found an answer to his questions.
"My engineer once asked me: 'What are you missing? What do you need?' Then I said: 'Actually, the balance is fine. I just don't think we have enough downforce. Because the laps themselves are pretty good, apart from a few minor things perhaps. But just what the car can do.
"So something was missing," says Ricciardo. "Maybe we didn't get it right in the set-up. Maybe there's still something we don't understand yet."
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