Ricciardo struggles at Silverstone: 'A tough circuit this year'

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Ricciardo struggles at Silverstone free practice Tricky one British GP
6 July at 07:30
  • Kada Sarkozi
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After an exclusive interview with GPblog, Daniel Ricciardo arrived to the first two free practice sessions on Friday. The Australian driver finished in P13 and P19 at the Silverstone Circuit in these sessions, and then talked about a challenging day, the team report.

"It was a tricky day. We found some answers for that trickiness in FP2 due to a few issues on the car in terms of load. It was a bit of a bummer because obviously you still try to do what you can, but it was a bit inconclusive on what our true pace is. In general, we’ll be trying to work on a few weaknesses we’ve seen and getting it better for tomorrow," began explaining his day at the British circuit.

The Australian driver also believes VCARB can find a solution to these issues the following day. "We’ll try to find the course once we look at the data, but I’m confident it’s nothing too weird. It’s going to be a tough circuit this year, but we should be able to clean that up and be further up the grid than we were today."

Permane also sees Ricciardo struggle

The team's racing director, Alan Permane, also confirmed it was not the easiest of days for the Australian VCARB driver. "Daniel struggled with some instability at the rear and it’s clear we’ve got work to do overnight to find some low-speed performance which is costing lap time. We will have one eye on the weather as rain is forecast for both days over the weekend and we will take this into account with our setup choices. We need to get everything perfect to give our drivers a shot at Q3 tomorrow," Permane explained.