Daniel Ricciardo scored just one point at the United States Grand Prix after a promising start which saw him overtake the Mercedes drivers and establish a six-second lead.
After the race, Ricciardo described the afternoon’s action at the Circuit of the Americas: “The beginning was really fun between both Mercs and both Red Bulls. It was a good four-way battle. To see the Mercs not getting away from us was awesome. I was enjoying that. In the lead, we were quite quick for a few laps and it felt like old times.”
However, once the track dried it quickly became business as usual with Mercedes finding speed and overtaking the two Red Bulls.
Ricciardo admitted: “That obviously didn’t last long and once we put the slicks on we just didn’t have the pace. We struggled with the warm up with the tyres and also struggled a lot with braking today. It was so tricky in the dry and then obviously there were the collisions with Hulkenberg and Carlos. It went downhill from then on. Even though we were on slicks it was never really dry out there. The kerbs were slippery and there was still a bit of a puddle through Turns 9 and 10, so it was definitely tricky. Dany spun off just in front of me on to the astroturf and into the wall.”
Ricciardo reflected on an eventful race and praised the newly crowned World Champion Lewis Hamilton:
“It was a crazy race and I hope the fans enjoyed it as it was quite action packed. Lewis definitely deserves the title. This year he was clearly on top of the rest so congrats and hats off to him for being the 2015 champion.”
