Daniel Ricciardo admitted he felt emotional on the finish of Sunday’s Singapore Grand Prix, as he’s extensively anticipated to get replaced earlier than the following race.
The RB driver waited earlier than climbing out of the cockpit of his automobile after ending immediately’s race in final place.
He gambled on beginning on gentle tyres after qualifying a lowly sixteenth, hoping a Security Automotive look early within the race may assist him. Nevertheless the race ran with out interruption and Ricciardo was advised to let his crew mate Yuki Tsunoda previous him at one stage.
“It was a troublesome race,” a tearful Ricciardo advised the official F1 channel. “I believe clearly any time you’re out in Q1 you have got probably an extended day and needed to attempt one thing with technique.
“You by no means know right here, with a Security Automotive, it may work in your favour. Clearly there wasn’t a Security Automotive immediately so clearly our technique then got here a bit of undone.”
His crew mate Yuki Tsunoda fell 4 locations to complete in twelfth. Ricciardo doubts that they had the potential to attain factors in Singapore.
“I believe in the end we simply weren’t fairly fast sufficient,” he stated. “I don’t know the total image of Yuki’s race, however I noticed he additionally completed out of the factors so maybe we simply didn’t have the general tempo within the race stints.”
Amid hypothesis Liam Lawson will exchange him at RB in time for the USA Grand Prix subsequent month, Ricciardo stated he spent some time in his automobile’s cockpit after the race to savour the second.
“There’s a number of feelings as a result of I’m conscious it could possibly be it,” he stated. “I believe it’s additionally simply exhausted after the race. Similar to a flood of many feelings and emotions and exhaustion and the cockpit is one thing that I acquired very, very used to for a few years and I simply wished to savour the second.”
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