McLaren saw their AustriaGP result as a 'bit of damage limitation' - especially on Daniel Ricciardo's side as he finished ninth. F1 Formula_Nerds
The problems for the team from Woking already started on Friday: during the first practice session, Lando Norris could hardly collect any data. This would have been important for the set-up that was supposed to get the Brit through qualifying.Daniel Ricciardo did not even make it out of Q1. The preview for the Sprint and the Grand Prix on Sunday was rather bad.
But both drivers were able to make up places in the sprint so that they could start the Grand Prix from P10 and P11.Despite a five-second penalty for Norris, he and teammate Ricciardo managed to make up places with the help of pitting under the Virtual Safety Car.: “I made a couple of mistakes with the track limits and ended up with a five-second penalty, which probably hurt us.”“Big thanks to everyone for working so hard at the track and back home, we made a good recovery from Friday to score some decent points.”
Daniel Ricciardo also scored points – the first since Azerbaijan and the fourth time this season. He managed to move up to P9.“Obviously the target was points. I think, as a team, we’re happy with that. It’s a lot better than where we were Friday, so to get double-points is good for us.”
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