Daniel Ricciardo responds to RB’s grim P18 qualifying in Spain

"I didn't really have anything to say on the radio beꦺcause I was honestly quite surprised"

Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) RB. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 10, Spanish Grand Prix, Barcelona, Spain, Qualifying Day.-
Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) RB. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 10, Spanish Grand Prix, Barcelona,…

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Daniel Ricciardo arrived in Barcelona ♎buoyed by a good result in Canada, and upgrades to his RB🥀.

But on Saturday at the F1 Sꩵpanish Grand Prix, he qualified in 18th, with teammate 𓄧Yuki Tsunoda just one place in front.

He tried to explain his RღB’s sho🦋ck lack of performance despite its many updated parts.

“I'd likeꦫ to think there's still a bit more on the package to to figure out,” Ricciardo said.

“But that's something obviously we'll keep doing.🐷 🅷On the flip side I do feel like [Friday] we were much more out of balance and actually today in quali the car felt much more together.

“I actually didn't think the car felt too bad in quali. Of cour🐷se there's some corners where you feel it should be flat there or whatever, so you know you m꧒ay be still missing a bit of load.

“But in general it was I felt much better than [Friday] so to still be back where we are I think that's still a bit more defined, I guess,🌠 so yeah I don't know.

“I haven't spoken to Yuki yet but I don't think he was too unh♉a♛ppy probably with how the car felt.

“I think we're just not that quick and normally you put three sets in Q1 it never guarantees you a spot in Q2 but it gives you a much better chance and obviously to still not make it I think it just shows that we don't have the pace with this current config so we'll keep chipping away. Three ✨weeks on the bounce now.”

Ricciardo i🍌nsisted the upgrades did not impact the car’s set-up.

“[Friday] felt like we weꦰre still trying to fight it a little bit so we did make some bigger changes overnight,” he said.

“So yeah, look, we probably haven't perfected it right now and maybe that's the encoꦐuraging th𓄧ing.

“But I feel like we did make a good job overnight to get the car in a better place. So from a 🍃fe♌eling, it felt better today.

“I had m⛄ore 𒆙comfort and confidence in it but unfortunately on this thing, the stopwatch, we're still where we were.”

The key to the progress 💟♎was controlling the aero balance shift, Ricciardo said.

“I would say so. With the floors, when you get a new floor, obviously that's where these cars are so powerful in terms of the load and the aero characteristics,” 𝔉he explained.

“So it's just trying to get on top of t🍰hat. Which as I saiꦚd, I felt like we made a good step today, but when Pierre told me P18 I didn't really have anything to say on the radio because I was honestly quite surprised.

“I knew we're not going to be at P10, but I honestly thought that ꧃would have been good🥂 enough for Q2.”

Ricciardo n𓃲ow♏ faces the F1 Spanish Grand Prix with only two cars starting behind him.

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