Daniel Ricciardo continued his mixed start to life in the McLaren F1 team at the Monaco GP as he finished a lowly 12th in the race.
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Daniel Ricciardo continued his mixed start to life in the McLaren F1 team at the Monaco GP as he finished a lowly 12th in the race. After struggling for pace in qualifying, he finished a lowly 12th in the race. That he struggled so much was made worse by how well his teammate Lando Norris did. The young Brit finished third in the race, his second podium finish of the season after the Emilia-Romagna GP. Afterwards, McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl explained why the Australian hasn’t gotten the best out of the car yet.
“In order to drive our car fast at the moment, you need a special driving style which is not natural for Daniel. That’s why it’s not easy for him to get the laps in and extract the performance,” Seidl said.
“We simply have to keep working together as one team. Stay calm, keep learning, keep analysing and do two things, which is him further adapting to our car, because he sees that the potential is there. Which is the positive thing for him to see that and that Lando can pull it off.
“And at the same time we look at the team side as well to see what we can do to help him on the car side, to get back this natural feeling, which you need to go fast. That’s where we are,” Seidl explained.
“It was quite a miserable weekend, just one to forget from my side. Obviously the other side and the rest of the team, they got a podium out if it and they nailed it so congrats to them,” Ricciardo said after the race.
” It wasn’t all miserable, but from our side, just one to forget, try and move on and hopefully find some answers. But obviously to be that far off, it’s a bit of an anomaly.”
“There were a few laps on the hard where I had some clear track. I don’t know the tyre situation (of other drivers), but I think I was quickest on track at that point. So I guess there were maybe some moments of positivity.
“But with the medium at the beginning, it was really just nowhere. I could just feel I was skating and I didn’t really know what was going on and trying to find the grip. It was tricky. But we’ll move on.”
