McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo has said that he believed the performance of the MCL36 was all there in the first qualifying session in Monaco, but did not seem to have an answer for why it slipped away. Ricciardo has endured a difficult weekend in the Principality, crashing in FP2 on Friday, before recovering to set 29
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo has promised to brush himself off after the crash he suffered during FP2 at the Monaco Grand Prix on Friday. The Australian had looked impressive throughout the first session as he clocked 37 laps in P7, just over a tenth of a second adrift of team-mate Lando Norris in fifth. The 32-year-old
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McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has suggested that there are “mechanisms” in place in Daniel Ricciardo’s current deal that could see it cut short before the end of 2023. Ricciardo was given a three-year contract when he joined McLaren last season, but he was out-qualified 15 times by team-mate Lando Norris, who out-raced him by
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After a promising Saturday, it was a Sunday to forget for Daniel Ricciardo at the Spanish Grand Prix, after a “really, really sad race” for the McLaren F1 driver. Ricciardo finished the race at what was a scorching hot Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in twelfth, despite having qualified in ninth. To add to the Australian’s woes,
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Daniel Ricciardo suffered a miserable Spanish Grand Prix, after what was a promising Saturday afternoon at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The Australian, who started ninth, finished the race in twelfth place behind his ill team-mate. The McLaren F1 Team brought a number of upgrades to the Spanish venue, which all worked as expected according to
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A fan on social media has criticised Daniel Ricciardo and Carlos Sainz, saying that it is a “crime” to compare either of them to Sir Lewis Hamilton. Ricciardo has scored points on two occasions this season including in the Imola sprint race, but a combination of misfortune, mistakes and poor pace has prevented him from
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Global rising costs are having a dramatic effect on Formula 1, with teams becoming ever more concerned that they may be forced to miss the final races this season. Despite the sport making more money than ever before, rising energy and freight costs, inflation and global supply chain issues, have caused teams to prepare for
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo has conceded that he is at a loss to explain why his pace went missing at the Spanish Grand Prix, and he described his race as “sad.” Ricciardo out-qualified team-mate Lando Norris for the first time this season when he got into the top 10 while Norris was bumped out having seen
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Lando Norris has a week waking up in his apartment ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix, a luxury that will be very welcome after he raced with tonsillitis in Spain. Norris fell during the weekend in Barcelona, and completed the 66 laps unable to speak to his engineer Will Joseph, and needed to communicate by
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McLaren’s Lando Norris has revealed how tonsillitis affected him during the Spanish Grand Prix after he battled through to finish eighth. Norris went to the circuit on Sunday feeling unwell, and was even unable to speak to his race engineer Will Joseph while in the car, so had to press buttons on the wheel to
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