'There's been a lot of times [this season] where I've felt a little bit like a passenger.' 💬 Daniel Ricciardo has admitted to feeling 'helpless' on occasions during 2022, amid his struggles with McLaren's current F1 car ⬇️
Daniel Ricciardo admits that he has felt like"a passenger" at times during 2022 as he struggled to come to terms with the McLaren MCL36 Formula 1 car.The Australian put in his best performance of the year in Mexico City last weekend, using a successful medium/soft tyre strategy that gave him the pace to charge up to seventh place – while negating a 10-second penalty for colliding with Yuki Tsunoda.
"Even the points finishes, even probably last year, I feel we were normally defending rather than attacking. So just to have an attacking race, and especially for me with this car to feel like I can attack a little bit more with it, it's just a nice feeling." "So you feel like you can't show really anything that you've got, because you're just not operating on the level of the others. So today to kind of be able to at least lean on it and push and have pace and be a guy that's setting quick times makes me happy.
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