Ricciardo's "strange" Monaco GP a "weekend to forget"
Ricciardo's "strange" Monaco GP a "weekend to forget"
Daniel Ricciardo has labelled his Monaco Grand Prix experience "strange" and a "weekend to forget" after being lapped by McLaren team-mate Lando Norris.
The Australian has struggled since joining the F1 team at the start of the year but took a step backwards in the Principality, never threatening the points-scoring positions whilst Norris secured a second podium of the season.
Ricciardo revealed he was trying to follow his team-mate's processes through the weekend to build up performance.
"I think the whole weekend was just a weekend to forget for me personally," said Ricciardo.
"Car four [Norris] and the rest of the team got a podium so I obviously want to congratulate them. They got it right.
"I don't even know if we got it wrong. We just never really got going. We didn't do a crazy-different set-up. I want to say the cars are nearly identical from a set-up point of view.
"I am not trying to be too clever with that either, I have got more to learn with this car than Lando does so I am not trying to be too different, trying to just follow suit and move forward with that.
"Just a strange weekend really from the get-go and one to forget. I am not going to over-analyse this one, just move forward to Baku and go from there."
Ricciardo finished 12th behind both Alfa Romeos and suggested he needed a break in order to process the disappointment instead of dwelling on data and analysis.
"I think this year there have been those races where I am like I have to find a bit more and it will come but this weekend was more of an anomaly with such a big difference," he added.
"Getting lapped might be the first time? I don't really know what to say. I will definitely look into it but when it is a weekend like this and I was as far off as I was, probably best to just step away for a few days."
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