{"id":142515,"date":"2021-10-11T00:27:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T00:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=142515"},"modified":"2021-10-11T10:02:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T10:02:27","slug":"ricciardos-humiliating-truth-after-turkey-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=142515","title":{"rendered":"Ricciardo's humiliating truth after Turkey nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia's Daniel Ricciardo<\/a> has made the humiliating admission that he eked out just four laps with "good pace" during the Turkish Grand Prix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Less than a month after breaking a three-year drought as he won the Italian Grand Prix<\/a>, Ricciardo plummeted to his second-lowest finish of the 2021 world championship, taking 13th after starting last due to a change of power unit.<\/p>\n

The wet conditions at Istanbul Park saw all but two of the drivers \u2013 Alpine's Esteban Ocon and Aston Martin's Sebastian Vettel<\/a> \u2013 use the same strategy, sticking with intermediates for the entirety of the race and pitting once.<\/p>\n

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Ricciardo lamented his lack of quick laps and attributed his struggles to troublesome tyres.<\/p>\n

"I think we had maybe four laps in the race where we had good pace, but the rest was hard," Ricciardo said.<\/p>\n

"In the beginning we struggled a lot with front grip, so it was really hard to stay close to the others, and then we pitted for a new tyre."<\/p>\n

Ricciardo was the first to box when he headed to the pits on lap 22, sitting 16th.<\/p>\n

And while he closed to within a second of the points, challenging Aston Martin's Lance Stroll<\/a> for 10th, he was overtaken late by Alfa Romeo pair Antonio Giovinazzi and Kimi Raikkonen<\/a>, knocking him down to his 13th-placed finish.<\/p>\n

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"After (the tyre change) I didn't have great rear grip to start and was struggling, but after a while it came good," Ricciardo said.<\/p>\n

"We had probably four good laps in that stint where I could feel like I could really push on the tyre, which was what I was looking for. Of the entire race, that was the positive.<\/p>\n

"I got a bit excited because I thought maybe it will just keep getting better and better, but it lasted four laps and then the rear dropped away again, so the last 10 laps were a bit painful, just trying to hang on."<\/p>\n

Ocon was the only driver to complete the race without stopping, becoming the first to do so since Finland's Mika Salo in his Tyrell car at Monaco in 1997.<\/p>\n

Vettel, on the contrary, was the only driver to experiment with slicks.<\/p>\n

But the four-time world champion lasted just one lap on mediums, returning to intermediates on lap 39 after failing to control his car in the wet conditions.<\/p>\n

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"Obviously, we were fighting for the points and that strategy was our best chance, but it was just really unpredictable," Ricciardo said of the decision to stick with intermediates and pit once.<\/p>\n

"I know others went longer, with one going the entire race on one set, but at the end I saw my tyres and they were on their last legs."<\/p>\n

Ricciardo's teammate, 21-year-old Briton Lando Norris<\/a>, finished seventh.<\/p>\n

The youngster had perform superbly at the Russian Grand Prix just a fortnight earlier<\/a>, collecting pole and leading the race until spinning out on slicks late, dropping to a seventh-placed finish.<\/p>\n

Team principal Andreas Seidl pointed out that McLaren's car wasn't suited to circuits like Turkey's Istanbul Park due to long corners.<\/p>\n

"As we have seen already several times this year, like in Zandvoort (at the Dutch Grand Prix), we struggle on these kind of tracks at the moment," Seidl said.<\/p>\n

"That's also the difference we are having on our side compared to the teams in front of us that can pull it off at every kind of racetrack."<\/p>\n

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