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Ricciardo: Gap to Norris more confusing than frustrating

Monte Carlo, Monaco

Emer Hedderman by Emer Hedderman
22nd May 2021
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Monaco Grand Prix – Daniel Ricciardo will start from 12th tomorrow for McLaren but says he can’t understand the deficit to his teammate.

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After two previous pole positions at Monaco, Ricciardo has been left confused by how far he’s found himself behind Lando Norris this weekend. The Australian has been almost a second off in each of the practice sessions despite feeling that he had been putting in good laps.

During the afternoon’s qualifying Ricciardo couldn’t make it out of Q2, his 1:11.598 over half a second off his teammate’s effort. While Norris comfortably made it through to Q3 and then took McLaren’s best qualifying position of the season: fifth, just 0.274 off pole.

“I think it’s more confusing than frustrating at the moment, I would say that’s the emotion,” Ricciardo said after qualifying. “There were some laps this year I’ve said that lap was a bit messy and I understand maybe why I’m a few tenths off, but I mean I was a second off the whole weekend more or less. As you know a second’s an eternity and I don’t really have an answer for that.

“I think you can explain maybe a couple of tenths on this and that but, especially around here, I don’t feel I forgot how to drive this track. So a few things we’ve got to try and figure out. Even in Q1 I remember I crossed the line feeling like I’d done a good lap and I think I was 1.2 slower than Lando at that stage. I’ve been doing this long enough to know if you’re a second off and that didn’t feel like it so I don’t also want to say there’s excuses but there’s definitely something that we’ve got to try and dig a little deeper to find out.

“I’d certainly want to proof check a few things, the last thing I want to do is point the finger at the guys and be like something’s wrong but it’s a long way off the pace. We’ll just try and understand it and for sure that’s what we will do, even if I was two tenths off the pace I’d still try and figure out where those two tenths are but this is obviously quite a big chunk to try and find.”

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