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How Ricciardo’s F1 expertise performed a component in his downfall
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How Ricciardo’s F1 expertise performed a component in his downfall

By Miles Cooper January 10, 2025
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Racing Bulls racing director Alan Permane believes Daniel Ricciardo utilizing his System 1 expertise to ‘overthink issues’ performed a component in his downfall final season.

Ricciardo returned to the crew [then known as AlphaTauri] halfway by way of the 2023 marketing campaign as a alternative for Nyck de Vries, although a damaged metacarpal sustained in observe for the Dutch Grand Prix stored him out for 5 races.

The Australian retained his seat with the newly named RB crew alongside Yuki Tsunoda for final season with the pretense of changing into Sergio Perez’s successor at Crimson Bull, returning to the seat he as soon as held alongside Max Verstappen which he abandoned on the finish of 2018.

However after a spate of poor performances – break up solely by a shocking fourth on the grid for the Miami Grand Prix dash – Ricciardo was ultimately shuffled out for Liam Lawson, who has since develop into Verstappen’s Crimson Bull team-mate.

Requested if he knew why Ricciardo struggled with the VCARB-01, Permane informed Motorsport.com: “Actually no.

“I don’t know and he doesn’t both. We sat down and talked, tried to determine it out. I used to be definitely nervous that he was overthinking issues – he was involved in regards to the tyres, that they couldn’t deal with the pace he could be asking of them.  

“It felt like he was utilizing his big expertise to second-guess issues that probably weren’t right, as a result of Yuki wasn’t and he was driving as fast as he might and it was working.  

“That was a tricky time after which after all we went to Miami and Daniel put it fourth on the grid. And also you suppose, ‘Ah, it’s all clicked.’ That was the Daniel I knew at Renault.  

“You do this within the dash on Saturday morning, then you definitely go for qualifying within the afternoon and he’s 18th. It was a little bit of a thriller, actually.”

How Ricciardo’s F1 expertise performed a component in his downfall

Oliver Bearman, Haas F1 Crew, and Franco Colapinto, Williams Racing

Picture by: Simon Galloway / Motorsport Photographs

Ricciardo had been on the sidelines earlier than rejoining the Faenza-based outfit having been let go by McLaren on the finish of 2022, the primary 12 months of the present regulatory period.

Lewis Hamilton has additionally discovered it troublesome to proceed his driving fashion with the ground-effect automobiles, particularly in qualifying, whereas up-and-coming drivers have seemingly thrived and on whether or not it’s a case of the championship’s veterans failing to come back to grips with the automobile’s specifics, Permane replied: “I don’t know, is the trustworthy reply. I actually don’t suppose so.  

“Have a look at Fernando [Alonso] in Spa final 12 months. He was immense, unbelievable. I do know it’s a handy factor to say with folks like [Franco] Colapinto coming in, [Oliver] Bearman… and definitely Franco appeared superb in his first few races.

“Nevertheless it’s very troublesome – one of many issues we mentioned on the time was that it’s nice when a driver is available in and does that, however doing it each week, that’s the exhausting factor.  

“In the event you take a look at his [Colapinto’s] final couple of weekends, he hasn’t fairly been so… in Mexico he was excellent though he didn’t qualify so effectively, then Brazil after all wasn’t notably good, Las Vegas not good both.  

“I believe to maintain that stage week in, week out, for these younger guys, that’s the place it will get powerful. There’s an enormous quantity they need to do away from the observe as effectively, so that they’re not simply left to sit down with engineers and concentrate on that.

“There’s all kinds of PR stuff which comes with System 1 now, and I’m fairly certain these younger guys aren’t used to, so there’s distractions all over the place. However there’s little doubt that they’re spectacular, that’s for certain.”

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