A huge crash marred the Belgian Grand Prix before Aussie F1 star Daniel Ricciardo pulled off a last lap stunner not seen in a decade.
Ricciardo was fighting all the way to the end, making up huge ground over the final few laps, cutting the deficit to the podium from 15 seconds with five laps remaining, to just three and a half seconds to Max Verstappen.
Ricciardo was a nagging presence all race for the leaders, having a first lap tangle with Verstappen as both drivers sent each other wide after driving wheel-to-wheel. Ricciardo finished the strongest after a one-stop when the safety car emerged following a crash between Alfa Romeo’s Antonio Giovinazzi and Williams’ George Russell on the 11th lap.
As it probably breached the social distancing protocols, the Sky Sports moved Norris on, with Ricciardo saying “Let me have today, let me have this moment” as his future McLaren teammate dismounted the interview stage.Ricciardo added: “We’ll probably hate each other after Melbourne.”Sky’s Simon Lazenby said it was so close for Ricciardo to take a shot at third, with talk immediately going to the betthat if the Aussie gets a podium, his boss will have to get a tattoo.
“We had a lot of pace,” he said. “I got a little bit frustrated by Gasly and Perez’ stategy , it put a buffer between Max and myself on the restart so without that, I genuinely think we could have stayed with him on the hards. Whether we could have passed I don’t know but we could have had a much better chance.
“I was trying to overtake and if he passed me later than so be it but it wasn’t worth putting myself out in the first few corners,” he said. “I was there and I was trying but keeping that one per cent of maturity and discipline in me.”Post-race, Verstappen wasn’t happy and said “it was pretty boring”.
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