Daniel Ricciardo was perplexed by the lack of pace he had at his disposal in qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix, where he only managed sixth place on the grid while his teammate Max Verstappen starred with a brilliant lap to claim second place.
The Australian's Q3 effort was a massive six-tenths shy of his Dutch teammate's effort and almost a second down on Lewis Hamilton's pole-winning time.
Afterwards, he told reporters, "It was a strange session and I was surprised that we lost so much pace in Q3. We made some changes between FP3 and Qualifying and initially the car felt pretty sweet."
"Everything we changed seemed positive and I thought we would get quicker and quicker as the track evolved, but we just lost pace as the session went on. I don’t have any answers as to why that happened yet which is pretty frustrating."
"I honestly thought we had a really good chance of a front row and in the space of an hour we lost a second to our competitors. Even with two attempts in Q3 we just couldn’t improve. It felt like we did everything right but the lap time doesn’t show it."
"I know we have good race pace but on a street circuit Qualifying is so important. It was strange and frustrating but hopefully we will find some answers," added Ricciardo.
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