McLaren perplexed by Ricciardo’s lack of Silverstone pace

“We have to perceive,” says McLaren’s Andreas Seidl, as lack of tempo and DRS situation left Daniel Ricciardo struggling behind the sphere on Sunday.

So nameless was Ricciardo’s British Grand Prix, that there will need to have been occasions followers have been questioning if he’d parked up and begun work on the script for his forthcoming TV collection for Hula.

Whereas his teammate, Lando Norris, was scorching on the tail of Fernando Alonso because the pair ready to grab any alternative that may come up from the Perez/Hamilton/Leclerc thriller, Ricciardo spent the afternoon staring on the rear of Stroll’s Aston Martin and at last Latifi’s Williams.

“We have to perceive why, in the course of the race, we simply did not have any tempo for an opportunity to really do something,” mentioned Seidl.

“Then, later within the race, as well as we had a DRS situation which clearly then compromised the race additional. However impartial of that, the race was just about finished already within the first stint, we simply could not transfer ahead, which we have to perceive along with Daniel.”

“Zero tempo,” sighed the Australian. “A bit bit like Barcelona the place we simply did not appear to function on the identical degree of grip because the vehicles round me.

“So just a little bit confused by that for the time being,” he admitted. “I imply, it is clear what I felt, however the explanation why, clearly undecided.

“Hopefully we discover some solutions as a result of it is clearly a fast turnaround until Austria.”

“On Lando’s aspect, I feel a reasonably managed race,” mentioned Seidl. “He was simply making an attempt to remain forward of Fernando as a result of that was our race at the moment.

“Sadly we misplaced the place to Fernando on the last security automotive, which value us then two factors within the championship.

“So, total, the weekend was extra encouraging in comparison with the final two ones as a result of we received again within the combat when it comes to tempo additionally with Alpine. We have to merely maintain constructing on that and attempt to make one other step in Austria subsequent weekend.”

In fact, speaking of scripts, some may recommend that there’s extra to the persevering with points with the Australian’s automotive than meets the attention.