Daniel Ricciardo didn’t manage to score points on home soil in Melbourne, on a day where his team mate finished seventh and got the team’s account up and running in the constructors’.
Having now been out-qualified by
Yuki Tsunoda in the first three races, the Australian was in a reflective mood
after coming home in 12th place.
Ricciardo’s woes in Australia
stretched back to qualifying when he lost his lap time in Q1 for a clear track
limits infringement, which dropped him to P18 on the grid. Although there were
three retirements in the race and two Virtual Safety Car periods, Ricciardo ran
out of time to climb into the points.
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“I feel like the frustration [from qualifying], I put aside for [the Grand Prix], I let that go last night and I didn’t end up breaking anything – I felt like some objects were going to get smashed following qualifying but maybe there’s a bit of calm with age,” he joked after the race
