Nog meer pech voor Ricciardo: gridstraf voor Grand Prix Miami

Eigen rechter spelen blijft toch het ergste wat er is...

Ben er nog niet over uit welke actie dommer is;
A. Tijdens een safetycar met Stroll achter je ineens heel hard op de rem trappen.
B. Tijdens een safetycar een andere auto inhalen.

Als Marko het wil neemt hij zijn straf mee naar Nascar.

Hulk haalde Ric in tijdens de botsing met stroll, maar Ric haalde hulk in tijdens de 2e SC, zo'n 2 ronden na het eerste incident.
Niet slim van Ric. Heb het zonder geluid terug gekeken maar ook niet slim van het team om dit te doen.

Ricciardo zit er lekker in sinds hij het nieuwe chassis heeft. Die 3 plekken deren 'm niet. Op naar punten in Miami.

Hij kan beter veel gas geven op weg naar de uitgang...

Een stukje uit het raceverslag:

Daniel Ricciardo #3
Race – DNF

“We started to make up a lot of ground in the stint before the Safety Car but during the restart, I got a pretty big hit and the car was damaged. We decided to retire because I wasn’t really driving an F1 car. It’s very frustrating. I watched his onboard and it looked like he wasn’t even looking at me, it seemed that his helmet was looking at the apex. We’ll never know what could have happened later in the race, but I think we were looking in a good place. Getting ruined by someone else makes me frustrated and this is where the disappointment comes, because today we had an opportunity and we missed it. I think there’s a lot of disappointment for everyone in the team. When I got back to the garage, I saw the mechanics looking at the damage and they feel as heartbroken as I do. I think we definitely had a better weekend from a pace point of view, and I I think the team could feel some momentum and some shift to the season. We go onto Miami and we’ll just try to keep working on that.”

Yuki Tsunoda #22
Race – DNF

“It’s unfortunate and frustrating how it ended up today. I was happy with how I progressed in the race until my contact with Magnussen. After the Safety Car, the start was good and I gained five positions, so I feel I maximised what I could do but the pace itself hadn’t improved as much as we wanted. We’ve been sliding more than other cars and the team has been pushing hard and helping me sort it out but overall, this week we weren’t able to show our true strong performance, and that’s a shame. We’ll look into why back in Faenza, and I know as a team we’ll come back stronger in Miami. It’s a shame that also Daniel had to retire because he had good pace in this race, so as a team, it’s frustrating that neither car finished the race and we couldn’t score points.”

Claudio Balestri (Chief Engineer – Vehicle Performance)

“For the race, we decided to split the two cars on a different strategy, starting Daniel on the medium compound and Yuki on the soft compound. For Daniel, he lost some positions at the start while Yuki was able to gain some. At the end of Lap 1, Daniel was P15 and Yuki P16, and considering we were far from the points we decided to pit Yuki for an early pitstop, with the target being to undercut the others and fitting a set of new medium tyres. Instead with Daniel, we decided to stay out and go for a longer first stint, pitting him on Lap 14.

Der Helmut moet gewoon Liam indycar zetten, dan heeft hij 2 problemen in één klap opgelost!

Ah. Vandaar dat Alonso geen gridstraf van 3 plekken kreeg voor zijn straf van zaterdag...

Als iemand toch eens eenduid kan scheppen bij de F1...

Hier ga je toch geen gridstraf voor geven?

Waarom krijgt Ricciardo wel gridstraf en Alonso géén gridstraf na afloop van de sprintrace? Straf was uitgedeeld nadat Alonso al was uitgevallen.