Daniel Ricciardo began the Hungarian Grand Prix inside the highest ten.
Nevertheless, the veteran System 1 driver didn’t end there.
Ricciardo started the race on the medium compound and pitted early, coming into the pits on Lap 8 to make the change to the laborious tire. Nevertheless, that early pit cease noticed Ricciardo emerge amid heavy site visitors, and he confronted an uphill struggle from there to attempt to get better place on the observe.
Ricciardo gained a number of spots on his second pit cease, however finally completed exterior the factors, settling for a P12.
That “lengthy and irritating” afternoon left the Australian driver on the lookout for solutions after the race.
“At present it was an extended and irritating race,” stated Ricciardo within the crew’s post-race report. “We didn’t use the tempo we had within the clear air. We had been on the mediums in the beginning of the race and after only some laps we pitted for brand new hards along with the opposite vehicles who began on softs, popping out in site visitors. It’s much more irritating as a result of we had been fast all weekend, and I felt like we now have taken ourselves out of the race so early as we couldn’t struggle vehicles that had been coming a lot faster on newer [tires].”
VCARB Workforce Principal Laurent Mekies conceded that the crew “acquired it fallacious” with Ricciardo on Sunday.
“Sadly, we acquired it fallacious with Daniel and pitted him too early in heavy site visitors, which misplaced him an opportunity to struggle for factors. His tempo had been extraordinarily robust all weekend lengthy, and he demonstrated that once more within the ultimate stint of the race when he was lastly capable of finding some free air and struggle his method again,” defined Mekies. “We actually share his frustration, and we are going to study and are available again stronger subsequent week.”
Nevertheless, not all was misplaced for the crew, as Yuki Tsunoda battled by the bruising he suffered in his shunt in qualifying on Saturday to complete up in P9, banking two doubtlessly vital factors for the crew of their struggle with Haas for sixth within the System 1 Constructors’ Championship.
Tsunoda praised the whole crew for placing his RB01 in place to complete within the factors on Sunday after his huge accident on Saturday.
“To begin with, enormous due to the mechanics and crew who spent the night time and this morning repairing my automotive in time for the race. It wasn’t simple after such an enormous crash and we needed to change a variety of issues, however due to their laborious work we had been capable of rating the factors at the moment – enormous credit score to the entire crew,” stated Tsunoda. “I’m very relieved I used to be capable of make up for it after yesterday’s crash and notably pleased with my [tire] administration. I believe it was an enormous race for us, particularly as we had been capable of end forward of our opponents, and it’s an enormous constructive for the approaching races.”
Tsunoda’s two factors imply VCARB now has a six-point lead over Haas, because the grid heads to Belgium for subsequent weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix, the final race earlier than F1’s summer season shutdown.
