“Why is he still in F1? We’ve been hearing that for five years. We have to ‘make the car better for him, poor guy.’ Nope. You are in F1. If you can’t, go home.”said Jacques Villeneuvethe 1997 world champion, to Daniel Ricciardo for SkySports ahead of the Canadian GP.
The truth is that the Australian driver is not having an easy time at RB and the possibility of returning to Red Bull is closed. But in Montreal qualifying, Ricciardo put in a great performance, necessary to continue in F1 next year, and will start fifth on the grid.
Afterwards, he was definitely asked about Villeneuve’s words, and Daniel did not bite his tongue when he got out of the car: “I heard that he was talking nonsense, but he always does. I don’t know if he is playing of ice hockey or something, but I won’t give him time, he replied.
Self therapy to improve
It’s no secret that Ricciardo hasn’t been happy since his return to F1 in the middle of last year. In fact, at the start of 2024 there was speculation that they could remove him from the car to replace Liam Lawson. For this reason, Daniel is determined to turn things around and one of the keys to doing so is self-therapy.
“I’m always looking at things on the track, ‘I can brake later here, or do this and that.’ I wonder what other things affect my performance. Do I go into a race weekend with no energy or feeling this or that? So I did a bit of self-therapy after Monaco.”
“I sat down and studied my mistakes off the courtMaybe I spend too much time with people, and by the time race day comes around I’m a little flattered,” he said.
Point level urgency is important and that is a Sunday race in the top ten is not over yet while Tsunoda, recently renewed with Faenza, has 19 points. The only five added by Ricciardo were in the Miami GP sprint.
Source: La Verdad
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