Daniel Ricciardo mentioned he knew the second he made his first pit cease within the Hungarian Grand Prix it was a tactical error.
The RB driver began ninth however completed three locations additional again after operating simply seven laps on his medium compound tyres initially of the race. He spent the remainder of the race on the laborious compound.
Ricciardo admitted he had misgivings in regards to the name to pit when it got here on lap seven. “You don’t wish to pull within the pits,” he advised the official F1 channel.
“You get the decision and you realize this isn’t the factor to do. However you get the decision late and there’s no time. There’s no time to query it as a result of then should you miss a lap, it’s even worse.”
He mentioned the staff ought to have left him out to make use of extra of the life from his tyres. “As quickly as I pulled in, the vehicles on softs had pulled in, we’re on a medium: Let’s go.
“Let’s use our clear and use the tempo we’ve acquired. After which we come out in visitors and it’s simply DRS practice and for what? We’re all then on the identical tyre.”
He described his afternoon as “one of many worst I’ve had in 250-something races. That was a protracted, previous irritating race the place I simply had a variety of lot of anger.”
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Ricciardo’s staff mate Yuki Tsunoda began one place behind him however ran till lap 29 on his medium tyres and accomplished his race with a single pit cease. In distinction Ricciardo “felt like we’d taken ourself out of the race so early.”
“We’re anticipated to struggle a automotive that’s coming a second a lap faster on newer tyres. What do you what would you like me to do?
“We simply made it so troublesome for ourselves after we had tempo and we might have simply stayed out, clear air, keep calm and do what we’ve carried out all weekend. So we did a race at present however we didn’t do a race if you realize what I imply. We had been simply driving round.”
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