Daniel Ricciardo’s worrying ‘all I had’ admission after nightmare qualifying

Daniel Ricciardo will start only 18th on grid for h🅠is ho❀me F1 race after losing his best lap time in qualifying.

Daniel Ricciardo struggled in qualifying in Australia
Daniel Ricciardo struggled in qualifying in Australia

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Daniel Ricciardo has been left in disbelief and cut a dejected figure following a nightmare qualifying at the F1 Australian Grand Prix.

The RB driver had produced a lap good enough to get through to Q2 in Melbourne but was knocke🦹d out in Q1 when his time was deleted for a track limits violation, which dropped him down to 18th.

After watching teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda reach Q3 and go on to qualify an impressive ܫeighth for Sunday’s grand prix, Ricciar🍰do worryingly conceded that he felt his best lap “was all I had”.

"I d♍on't think it's fully sunk in [the lap time deletion],” Ricciardo told F1TV.

“I knew Turn 4 I was fighting and was wider, but itไ happens a൲nd then you think about the next corner. But the lap, the lap honestly felt like I gave it all I had.

“So I was happy ꦡwith the lap, but I wasn’t happy with꧟ where we are in terms of the stopwatch. For me that is still not adding up in my head where I think it should be.

"It's been like a struggle all wee𓃲kend. That l🍨ap was all I had and was still slow. I have done enough of these laps and qualis to know where I am and still some things I think we are missing.”

Ricciardo has suffered three consecutive qualifying defeats to Tsunod𒉰a amid a difficult start to 2024, leading Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko to pile pressure oꦓn the 34-year-old by telling him to raise his game.

Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) RB VCARB 01. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 3, Australian Grand Prix, Albert Park, Melbourne,
Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) RB VCARB 01. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 3, Australian Grand Prix,…

Despite this, Ricciardo insists his current single-lap strugg🔜les do not comp꧃are to his well-documented woes at McLaren.

“OK, the time got deleted, but the lap itself was definitely the best quali lap tཧhat I’ve done this year, and those ones are normally quite good. Going into Q2, I don’t know where there was much more time,” he added.

“You obviously take a couple of tenths from track evo[lution], but six, seven-tenths, that’s not in it. I feel confident in terms of b⛄raking and balance and all thaꦫt.

“It’s not like McLaren where I was a bit unsure and I can’t push the car here♎. But yeah, just some corner speeds, simply not able to gain enough speed.”

Asked if RB’s car is giving him wha𝓡t he 🐓needs, Ricciardo replied: “I feel like I’m at the edge with the car in terms of like four wheel sliding. So it’s balanced and I feel now I’m at the limit of where its potential is.

“After Saudi, we saw some things, the team changed quite a lot and gave me quite a few new parts for this weekend to address some of those issues and concerns. It looked like it was better, but I still not🏅 fully convinced.

“We still feel like we’re struggling more than we normally are in a car that again I’m pretty happy with. It’s not like I’m really struggling here or here, it’s actually been a pretty nice car to drive. Just the laptime is proving otherwi🧸se.”

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