Breakdown for Ricciardo: 'Probably going to happen again'

It was another disappointing race for Daniel Ricciardo. The Australian was allowed to start from P11, but at Turn 2, he crashed with Alexander Albon. Following his crash at the Japanese Grand Prix, Ricciardo says the crash frustrated him.

The season has started quite disappointingly for the 'Honeybadger' anyway. Teammate Yuki Tsunoda has beaten him time and again so far in 2024. There are already rumours that Ricciardo has to fear for his seat.

It is therefore extra frustrating for Ricciardo that he crashes on lap 1 in a weekend with a lot of potential, he says: "Yeah, it is, and I think also yesterday I was obviously frustrated not to make it [into Q3] by half a tenth, but there were some positives, there were some things that we felt like we could probably show today. And yes, lap-one incidents are the worst, because there are always those questions. “Oh, what could have been? Maybe we could have done this”. So yes, shameful, not only us as a team, but Alex, you never want to see someone go out on Lap 1."

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However, Ricciardo is not letting himself off the hook: "I don't look at today and think, 'Oh, man, this year," like, when it rains, it pours, or whatever, I feel it was just one of those things. We know that with 24 races, it's probably likely that maybe I'm involved in another Lap 1 incident, it's just probability and that, so these things can happen. It obviously sucks when they do, but I don't look at it any more than today being a kind of singular incident. Of course, it would have been nice to get a race under our belt and try to show a little bit of something I felt we were starting to show yesterday. But yes, we'll do that in China. "