WHAT’S UP WITH DAN?
ONE OF THE most mystifying aspects of the 2021 F1 season to date is the struggle Daniel Ricciardo is having at his new berth of McLaren. Recently in Monaco – where he went out in Q2, almost a second slower than teammate Lando Norris, who qualified fifth and who lapped him in the race – was the furthest off he has been all year.
Most recently in Azerbaijan, as we went to press, he was again outqualified by Norris by 0.8sec, and finished ninth to Norris’s fifth place.
So what’s happening? In a Sky TV interview in Monaco, Ricciardo explained how he’d bumped into his McLaren predecessor, Carlos Sainz, who asked Ricciardo, ‘What do you think? Strange, eh?’
