Daniel Ricciardo finished fifth in the Spanish Grand Prix, his plight not helped by a spin during the VSC restart which compromised his race, while his teammate Max Verstappen managed to finish on the podium.
A day earlier, after qualifying the Australian was stumped by the Q3 pace shown by Ferrari and Mercedes, but expected a better race package.
Speaking to reporters after the race, the Australian said, "It was just a bit tricky to drive. It was fast when you were able to put it all together but easy to make mistakes. It was a bit on a knife-edge."
"If you got lucky, you could put in a blistering lap but probably 1 out of 5 I could make it happen and the other four laps I was sliding and struggling to stay on."
"At the beginning of the race it felt like we were hanging on. It seemed Kimi wasn't particularly quick and Max and myself had more pace. But I came out of the pits and there were three cars fighting and that cost me a bit of time. And on the VSC restart I had a spin which put me in no-man's land."
Looking ahead to the next race through the streets of Monte Carlo, Ricciardo predicted, "Monaco should be our strongest circuit to date on raw pace but we'll see."
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