Daniel Ricciardo says he was angered by the technique RB put him on within the Hungarian Grand Prix after which an absence of apology that adopted the checkered flag.
RB began final Sunday’s race with each vehicles within the prime 10, Ricciardo ninth forward of teammate Yuki Tsunoda. Each drivers began on medium tires and had been jumped by Alex Albon and Kevin Magnussen off the road, however Ricciardo was referred to as into the pits on lap 7 — one lap after Albon and Magnussen — to suit exhausting tires and emerged behind each as soon as once more, limiting him to twelfth on the end.
“You don’t wish to pull into the pits,” Ricciardo (pictured above with group principal Laurent Mekies) mentioned of the early pit cease. “You get the decision and you recognize that this isn’t the factor to do, however you get the decision late and there’s no time to query it. As a result of then for those who miss a lap then it’s even worse.
“However 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 air, use the tempo we’ve acquired, after which we come out in site visitors and it’s simply DRS practice, and for what? We’re all then on the identical tire… That was one of many worst ones that I’ve had in 250-something races — that was an extended previous irritating race the place I simply had quite a lot of anger.
“We speak about methods and that… however two vehicles jumped us at the beginning with a comfortable tire. That’s tremendous, allow them to go. They pit and we observe them. To then simply be on their technique… We’d have had clear air and an opportunity to [score], I feel, from what I perceive of Yuki’s race.
“Truthfully, I used to be anticipating extra. On the in-lap I used to be ready for, ‘Sorry. We f****d up.’ And I didn’t get it. So, that made me much more offended.”
Tsunoda didn’t make his first pit cease for an additional 22 laps, happening to complete ninth on a one-stop technique. Ricciardo says the timing of the outcome was notably painful, having highlighted the significance of the 2 races earlier than the summer time break for his future.
“That’s the factor — I really feel like we’ve taken ourselves out of the race so early after which we’re anticipated to battle a automotive that’s coming a second a lap faster on newer tires and it’s, ‘What would you like me to do?’
“We simply made it so troublesome for ourselves once we had tempo and we might have simply stayed out in clear air, stayed calm and do what we’d achieved all weekend. We did a race however we didn’t do a race, if you recognize what I imply. We had been simply driving round.”
