As for Ricciardo, he additionally struggled off the road – and he isn’t fairly positive what’s going on when the lights exit. Dropping these two positions proved essential, as he grew to become marred in a DRS queue for a lot of the race.
Though with some quicker automobiles recovering from poor qualifying periods such because the Crimson Bull of Sergio Perez, factors had been all the time going to be difficult in a race the place there was just one retiree.
“From my facet, nothing felt prefer it went unsuitable [at the start], you sort of know in the event you bodge it from the best way you drop the clutch, you’ve received a fairly good thought when it’s your fault,” the Australian stated afterwards.
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“I didn’t really feel like something went unsuitable so yeah, let’s wait and see however as a crew now we have to determine it out. We simply lack consistency there and it instantly drops you out of the factors.”
Ricciardo remains to be but to attain in a Grand Prix correct, however he does at the least have some factors on the board from his Miami Dash consequence, the place he picked up 5 factors. That places him in P14 within the drivers’ championship, narrowly behind the motive force that’s proving to be RB’s fundamental rival this season – Hulkenberg within the Haas.
