Horner praises Ricciardo for Hungarian Grand Prix fightback

Christian Horner says he is pleased with how Daniel Ricciardo responded to his disappointing Qualifying session with a P4 finish.

Red Bull boss has expressed his delight with his driver Daniel Ricciardo's P4 finish at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday.

Ricciardo started outside the top ten following his disappointing Qualifying session, but almost reached the podium in a race that his Red Bull team were confident about.

The Aussie had a collision with Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas that knocked him off the track but managed to overtake the Finn on the last lap, something that made his boss Christian Horner very pleased.

"A fantastic recovery by Daniel who actually completed the first lap down in P16," Horner said to The Checkered Flag.

"He made his way through the field with some decisive overtaking and had rapidly moved up tp P5 by the halfway stage of the race.

"We then changed on to the Ultrasoft tyre for the final 26 laps and he started to catch the group consisting of Bottas and the two Ferraris ahead of him. After Valtteri and Sebastian had had contact ahead, the wounded Mercedes then hit Daniel when he was attempting to pass him at Turn one causing significant damage.

"However, Daniel was able to keep going and then pass him for good on the last lap taking P4 at the flag."