Why Daniel Ricciardo is struggling in F1 again 

Had to ruin his 1 good moment in Mclaren with some cringe, unbased shit like this. I could never like him.

narrator voiced by morgan freeman?

@@Cynderfan35I read it more in Ron Howard’s Arrested Development voice

I never left - Danny’s problems

​@@motis555yes, he said it like the spell was broken forever and he would deliver in every single race from that moment forward. In reality he won at Monza (the same circuit where De Vries made those points) and with all frontmen DNFing. His actual performance, we see it the races prior and after that one. "Never left"? Oh my boy. Dude left in 2020 already

I'd add in, was never that good to begin with, but this works

Long version: *W A S H E D*

@@wmk29 W

He was always destined to be a number 2. He could have been a number 2 in a number 1 team. Now he’s a number two in a meh team.

Laughed so hard at this

He lost 3-1 in the races against Lawson when they both finished, Lawson was unprepared rookie, he also got destroyed in 2021 by Gasly (failing to deliver in one of the bast AT ever) and although he improved, still lost the next year, Tsunoda is definitely a solid driver now, but he remains in the bottom 5 or 6 of the grid. I put Sainz, Leclerc, Hamilton, Russell, Alonso, Albon, Max, Gasly, Ocon, Norris, Piastri and even Pérez still ahead of him.

@@quentinhirschfeld93822021 was literally his debut year, why is it a bad thing that he gets defeated by a driver with multiple more years of F1 experience?

⁠@@quentinhirschfeld9382Yeah that is a highly questionable stat. First of Zaandvort - Tsunoda was ahead by quite some margin. He was battling with Hamilton and Norris before AT decided to leave him out and cost him 20 seconds. Even then he still had a half minute on Lawson before the red flag came out to close that gap, and it still took a 5 second penalty to finally put Lawson ahead. So yes Lawson was ahead - but he most certainly wasn’t faster. Monza - Tsunoda’s blew up on the way to the grid so lets ignore that. Singapore - Tsunoda was taken out by Perez having a half hearted attempt on the opening lap. In qualifying Tsunoda was again faster his Q1 time was faster than anything Lawson set across all sessions, but Tsunoda didn’t set a Q2 time - which was his own fault. Japan - Again Tsunoda was faster, but Lawson got ahead on the opening lap. They gave Tsunoda the chance to undercut and he did so but he was unable to pull out a significant gap - so here Lawson legitmately was on Tsunoda’s pace. Qatar - Tsunoda was faster and beat him. Qatar - sprint Lawson spun. So it was 2-1 in races they finished and that is being very generous with the circumstances in that Zaandvort race. Japan is the race where Lawson did beat Tsunoda, but the rest Tsunoda was always faster, there was just always some circumstance, be it one of his own making or bad luck.

@@13Xerro 1) RACE-CRAFT is part of what makes a good F1 driver. In Zandvoort, Lawson just avoided trouble and bring the car home despite no experience of the car, being unprepared and never having drove in the rain. In Singapore, Tsunoda knows with his experience that you always leave a space just in case on the inside on an, opening lap, not saying it was his fault, but with better awareness, he would've avoided the incident nonetheless. As for Japan, Yuki was barely quicker on a track Lawson discovered, he schooled him on the first lap. 2) You have to take into consideration that Lawson arrived in the middle of nowhere, the dude was in the middle of a title fight for the title in SuperForumla, before being called due to Ricciardo's injury, literally got wingsuit in a situation he had no chance of anticipating.

@@13Xerro It took 1 year and half to Tsunoda for finally being more or so on Gasly's pace

Yeh I love him but I think he's too big a step behind now😕

he has so much potential in life too, he’s struggled with the extra aero for too long now

He's only a pair of baggy overalls away from being Jacques Villeneuve in a BMW Sauber.

It better be. It's an embarrassment he's on the grid

good riddance

Good. I hope he keeps it that way. DR needs to leave F1. Enough is enough.

Whatever he learned from Daniel, Daniel should learn again it seems

Learning what not to do clearly...

@@shahzebhasan9995this

He is not fast at all

Hamilton is slow - It's the car LeClerc is slow - It's the strategy

@@RAZGR1Z Max wins - it's the car and Max Anyone else wins - it's Max's dead car

He needs to follow Romain and head over to Indycar.

Still my hero

The Guenther steiner of drivers.

Ya but is he really good for PR anymore? He sounds like a depressed emo in interviews now

That's what so irritating about Ricciardo is he is past his best and washed. Yet people still want him to have a seat in F1 and deny up and coming young drivers a seat because he's a nice guy. It is time he is shown the door and delusional fanboys are told to fuck off. Get some new talent like Lawson in stop wasting time with Ricciardo just because he's good for PR.

He should retire and go into analysis for media on F1. He would be great at it.

​@@davidlynch9049 He could definitely be a very fun pundit

Yuki is a Honda-backed driver, when Honda leaves so does he Also, Stroll? Wishful thinking. Zhou is underrated, as good if not better than Tsunoda, sadly he’s stuck at an actual backmarker

I hear you. Though I wouldn't be to quick to replace Yuki considering how much time they've invested in him as a driver. In spite of what I've said above, admittedly he didn't come to the team the driver he is now. But here they are and so far they haven't proven very successful with replacing Gasley (I know the video isn't about Yuki and now I feel I'm going down a rabbit hole 🙂). @@Duval-In-The-Wall

U forgot to mention the two terrible French drivers that should be delivered baguette 🥖 on back of mopeds in Paris rather than in F1. 10% of grid is le'miserable

@@roryjacobs6817 Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Gasly would love his seat back, Alpine has gone down in a ball of flames Red Bull don’t care tbh, they aren’t interested in Tsunoda for the main team. Honda was the main reason he got multiple seasons They’ll just keep cycling through drivers until they get what they want, there’s Lawson (who has been pretty close to Tsunoda’s performance) and then Hadjar, Marti, etc.

@@Duval-In-The-Wall actually, the Strolls have com. under pressure by fellow Aston share holders especially after last year when one driver was carrying the team. Honda will join Aston Martin and I am sure Tsunoda's name will be mentioned when that time comes, cause I feel Alonso is going to retire after this season if no other team that can win the title comes for him, while stroll might get bored of it, remember this is Lawrence pushing his ambitions on his son.

Or Indycars

Lol, of course people will call it out if you don't perform well in f1, even if you are a funny and likeable. F1 is not a circus or a kinder garden, it's the pinnacle of motorsport for god's sake.

There’s a spare seat going in the third Porsche HyperCar #4 at this years Le Mans alongside Seb Vettel and Mathieu Jaminet. So potentially rhat could be a future route for Danny Ric once he sadly gets the boot from F1.

Nah Ricky is paid 300k for the year ....

It simple popularity brings in money if it makes money it make sense

"many young drivers" no, just Liam Lawson.

Having watched him since his F3 days I can say that’s not the case. Yuki gets frustrated and angry in cockpit when he percieves something to be unjust or unfair.

Nah man he has been like this ever since he joined the team in 2021 and gasly definitly wasnt as marketable as daniel. Its just that yuki is bankrolled by honda not red bull. Hes a bargaining tool for them to kind of have some power over red bull and rb. That doubles the pressure especially given honda are soon moving to aston worsening their relationship

@@Manlikerik8 No. Honda and RB paid half each for Yuki's F3 and F2

lol that doesn't seem that farfetched of a scenario now that you mentioned it

Except he started strugglijg in 2021

Leaving red bull wasn’t the problem, leaving Renault was

@@darbstre29002021 he still was good enough to win a race and beat Norris at certain tracks in the McLaren he wasn't used to

I liked Danny Ric, but at this point he is the F1 driver who cried "bad car." I get him jumping from RB to Renault, but since then he really can only blame himself which is now evident to everyone given how Norris and Tsunoda have driven along side him.

I call BS. Christian said Daniel would have lined up on the front row next to Max (so perhaps 2... 3 tenths off at most) after his pace test at Silverstone last year. Where are you getting this information from?

His prime just felt very brief - and wasted. Makes me wish he stuck at it in Red Bull and got to enjoy a piece of what Max has had.

@@Nikelaos_Khristianos “Very brief” as in 7 years?

I don't think he's past his prime necessarily, he just doesn't put the work in that other drivers do. He parties too much between events while other drivers like Max and Lando (and others) are racing in simulators at work and at home. Studying their race performances. CONSTANTLY honing their skills. You could tell it frustrated Lando when they were teammates that Daniel just didn't take his position seriously and just expected the car to change at some point so he could start winning again. Lando pulled off a few great results in that "garbage" car while Daniel was nowhere every race, every time.

@@biggusy25 people hate when you bring this up... Daniel just wasn't as serious as other drivers in his prime years. He ultimately made a bad decision in his peak but I also don't think he would've kept up with Max, at the rate Max was improving. He would've been 2nd in that team and given the way his confidence wains and affects his drive, there's a real possibility he goes down hill even worse. I just think if he would've accepted that he was better off in a mid place team getting money and being number 1, he could've kept the developmental team with Cyril and he would've had a car that didn't win, but kept him relevant a bit longer.

Easy to be a fan? Dude is so annoying lol

Danny ric has been my favourite driver for ages. It really hurts to see him not at his best anymore.

Nah Daniel is a has been

​@@robertlee6338 Daniel is a never was

So new logic for Danny fan base is Yuki has obviously gotten so much performance due to Daniel being there. Same as last year when they were saying Daniel was responsible of all the input on their upgrades late in the season.

😂

Of course.. his car is Honda powered, they will always tweak it just enough for him to scrape ahead.

He'll have to change that name once Lawson gets the seat..

@@chumleykhahaha what?! Ric fans are just pathetic lol

Except Gasly, where the reverse is true

He went through a lot of growing pains, but unlike Mazespin has actual talent. Why is Zhou still in F1 and Sargent. They both are terrible and full of excuses in their interviews afterwards.

Most fans don’t update their views to fit facts. They’re stuck in 2021

@@michaeldellorso889 please elaborate

​@@jbruderthuh? Zhou is Solid. Just a ghost personality otherwise Hes always pushing that car as much as bottas does. Remember that bottas Was one of the fastest drivers a few years back. Zhou is definitely driving his moneys worth

Yup. Yuki responded to the pressure from Helmut Marko - which is very hard to do. Yuki was lucky to get extra time to prove himself, but he's payed off extremely well.

shut up he is a great driver

@@AllisterOlsson You're very much mistaken. He's always been overrated. Every single one of his race wins were down to lucky circumstances. I listed all eight reasons in my other comment on this video, if you want my reasoning to back up why they were all lucky wins.

@@paladestar9758 "Always been overrated" Yes the man who was touted to be a future world champion and wasn't because of Mercedes' dominance, was overrated. If Daniel has always been overrated, what does that make Leclerc or Norris then? Because those two are doing what Daniel did back at Red Bull, and Norris hasn't even won anything.

His career says otherwise. 😂

@@paladestar9758 He wasn't overrated when he was delivering the goods for Red Bull, but he stopped developing and has not kept up with changes in the sport. The stuff that worked for him 7-10 years ago doesn't cut it now.

Alonso has been consistently digging out decent performances out of dog shit cars, he's a driving genius

I think you mean "middling". I agree with your point though.

Yuki definitely has talent. It's his mentality that's the issue, he's still too immature, and lacks any control over his emotions

he is takuma sato v2, a bit less crashes, a lot more swearing

He really only got 1 “second chance” the AT seat last year You can hardly call his 2-year McLaren contract a “second” chance, he earned that drive based on 2020

@@Duval-In-The-Wall most don't get a second chance like that, what's worse to me, is how Daniel turned his nose up at any team he deemed lesser, like he only belonged in a number 1 car and that's a wild entitlement to have given how utterly poor he was and how much money he demanded.

He got a second chance because of his record in the past winning races and dominating against teammates like Vettel, Hulk, Ocon, etc.

​@@Duval-In-The-Wall2020,2021,2022,2023 the dude gets Chance After Chance After Chance and is always disappointing or mediocre at Best. Get it out i want to see lawson and not this slimey Ass Clown. First he Leaves redbull because of the junior driver and now he tries to suck up to him

​@@petouserhe got 3 chances already and Mclaren rather paid 20 mil than let that dude drive any longer and Hes still stealinf the seat of lawson in a Team he shouldnt be in. RB is a junior Team jeez

Words.

Indeed.

It has been hard since he started wearing yellow. He might have a hefty bank balance these days but turns out he threw it all away for nothing!

Not being a fan is even harder. The Money Badger was always overrated, even at RB back in the day. His wins comes from a dominant car. He was the Perez of his era

@@PC_Ringo yellow?

Starting to think the same about Lewis

2021 wasn’t ground effect and he was struggling then

@@johnbeer4963 There might be something to that. George has had a better handle on the problematic Mercedes cars but his lapses in focus at key junctures have cost him dearly. Next year should remove any question about Lewis's ability to drive this generation of cars.

@@twincam20mr2021 McLaren was still an understeer balanced car (like the ground effect cars tend to be) which he does not gel with at all

I disagree with that. Ricciardo was very serious about winning at Red Bull but he let his ego and celebrity cloud reality. He was called by many around the paddock and the media as a "future world champion." The "last of the late brakers" nonsense too. Ricciardo thought he was destined to be champion and that's why he left Red Bull for Renault because he believed it was all him and if he had works backing as a #1 he would win. He was proven very wrong.

@@RAZGR1Z I mean maybe pre-DTS fame... sure. But he always struck me as not that serious, not only the joking but his intent in being a world champion and the toll of doing it. I.E. Max learned every component of the car, in contrast Ricciardo loved to party in Monaco and there were reports he didn't take sim work all that seriously.

I think we will see him soon the RB

Liam is better. Wait for the 2nd half of the season when Daniel is sacked and Liam shows his level.

I think it will happen sooner than mid season.@@arfa9601

He's good, But its not a Young superstar like Redbull wanted. They want a Max/Leclerc/Norris/Piastri/Antonelli Somehow Redbull junior didnt manage to spot a good generation in this years.

that was only a test

And how much did Horner spin the test in Daniels favour

They need to dump the older drivers anyways... F1 was much more exciting with rookies every year.

@@BobbyGeneric145 That's also due to the new economical settings (put in place by the terrible gestion of Bernie Ecclestone, on which Libert carried one) and the lack of teams.

From Alonso to Tsunoda, what a fall in grace...

No

@@quentinhirschfeld9382yeh of course he isn’t better than alonso, but in terms of a realistic pick for them he is still a good option

He would be a great pick as a team mate to Alonso maybe... But definitely not as a replacement. I think if Alonso chooses to leave, then Aston may become interested in Carlos, assuming he is available by that point. I definitely think Aston should get real and let Lance go. Think of all the points they didn't score last season because of Lance's mediocrity. The only times he finished ahead of Alonso were times that they were both going to finish 9th and 10th because the car was slower than other cars but better than the worst, and Alonso let Lance finish 9th instead of 10th so as to not completely humiliate him.

I really doubt. If they lose Alonso they will try; 1 Sainz 2 Bottas 3 Gasly 4 Albon 5 Tsunoda

No, ricciardo was never the fastest driver but had the best racecraft I’ve ever seen. Danny ric at his peak was closer in speed to a slightly faster Sainz. But now he is unable to drive to his strengths due to the heavy, sluggish new cars.

2017 was peak Ricciardo. He STOMPED Max that year. They had equal amounts of bad luck.

@@FiremarioflowerVerstappen was a rookie 😂

I never rated Ricciardo. I thought he was done after his McLaren stint. There are several F1 drivers that should get the hook...Ricciardo, Sargeant, Stroll. F1 - "the 20 best drivers in the world". That's a joke.

Max is just on iracing until 4am the night before races 😂

Shhhhh

I would say that's true but you don't have to live at the track and the sim to win championships. Historically that is a fact. Ricciardo lost his ability to drive at the limit.

@@RAZGR1Z Golf is an example, John Daly was partying all night and hung over when he teed up with, super fit, super serious, Tiger Woods, in a Tournament, and beat him by 4 strokes on that round, lol.

'Most underrated' Lol, the dude got beaten 3-1 by an unprepared rookie last season, was on average (tthat's a fact, it's datas) just a bit slower than a off-prime Ricciardo last year in terms of race pace on average and is put by some in front of guys like Gasly (who destroyed him), Ocon and even Russell.

@@quentinhirschfeld9382 where do you source and manufacture your "facts" ?

@@quentinhirschfeld9382 CRAP arguments. Get a life, jokester.

Charles is the most underrated. As is Ocon. Tsunoda is definitely also deserving of that label.

@@ducedevlstear2471 Statistics extracted from datas. Ricciardo was indeed on average just slightly faster than Tsunoda in the race. And the 3-1 for Lawson is a straight out FAX.

After they gave him more years than your regular rookie gets

That’s cause Honda sponsors him. A Japanese driver with a Japanese engine. When Honda is gone yuki most likely will be to.

Sure, but, as a person who really likes both of them, it's obvious that Ricciardo would demolish Yuki is he was somewhere near his 2014-2020 form

Maybe. People are happy to say that he is fast. It's just his childish emotions and mistakes that people have a problem with.

@@sergioferrero46 or maybe he's just utterly incapable of adapting to the ground effect cars regardless of his "current form" and people should stop making excuses for him.

Yeah but realistically, take your Yuki stan cap off, he hasn't done much, he's in his 4th year of F1, no podiums, no wins.

I didn't know about the statue. 😂 House looks amazing though.

That's exactly the problem. And the Daniel meat gobblers lose their mind when you say this. He doesn't want to put in the hard work to become a better driver. It's just that simple. He's just a buffoon and he should really go to NASCAR where he'll fit right in

He thinks he can jump into Redbull seat immediately because Horner and Max like him 🤦‍♂

To be fair, at least he doesn't have a museum about himself like Alonso, but other than that completely agree. That horsey thing was terrible.

@@ab8jeh To be fair, Alonso has done things to warrant a small museum.

And Horner to an extent, he's the one who wanted Ricciardo over Lawson. Hows that working out?

@@liukin95 Clearly very well considering since Ricciardo joined the team, his input and experience has ultimately made the car point scoring and a Q3 contender.

@@baydos602 Ricciardo is notoriously known for not being a great driver when it comes to feedback and leadership. RB hasn't made significant progress when he drove for the team (in fact, thet actually started delivering more when he quit), neither Renault or McLaren.

@@quentinhirschfeld9382they started delivering more when he quit because they got rid of the cursed Renault PUs.

100%

I'm sure Helmut Marko wouldn't hesitate to give him the same treatment as De Vries if he continues performing the way he is - but something tells me that Horner won't let that happen to Daniel.

Nah because Ricciardo's return has already been way better than De Vries last year. RB needs his experience and its clear that his input is paying off. It's no conicidence that since Ricciardo joining the team, Alphatauri now RB has turned into a points scoring team. Unfortunately for all the Ricciardo haters, he is going to be backed by the team and most likely given the whole season.

Exactly it’s time they show him the door…

@@baydos602 Ricciardo is a 34 year sold driver with over 10 years of F1 experience, of course he's going to do better than a rookie like De Vries! De Vries got done dirty, the dude was just 3 tenths away from Tsunoda (and was clearly getting better) on average and he didn't even had a full year to prove himself. Tsunoda scored 1/3 of Gasly points in 2021, got destroyed in qualifying, despite this, his seat was never at risk. Nobody is a Ricciardo hater, he doomed his own career by leaving RB and so far he's having lots of extra chances just because of his past and PR presence.

34 is not old for an F1 driver. Hamilton, Schumacher, Prost, Mansell, and Lauda were all champions past that age.

If age was the problem Alonso and Hamilton should have retired years ago. He just clearly can't adapt

Lmao, tho vettel got beat by leclerc in the last 2 seasons, saying he was under performing is quite a rash statement.

@@Nefus1988 people need to realize that not all drivers can be Alonso (mainly), Hamilton or Schumacher. In every sport it's perfectly possible, and it happens all the time, that some athlete has an early peak and then it gradually fades away for no reason. The "car excuse" has been masking it up for Ricciardo because in F1 you can always blame the car but sadly it all comes to surface sooner or later.

Terrible comparison. If Vettel underperformed for years, that means Leclerc also underperformed for years. Ricciardo left the sport for consistently underperforming whilst Vettel was dragging the slowest car to the points many times before he announced his retirement. It’s all in the head and Ricciardo clearly hasn’t had any motivation to find the solution to his problems

and i saw video about Hamilton being a late braker and he also struggle

@@kubhak yeah now that i think about it, i remember that video of hamilton telling a story about his dad would stand closer and closer to a corner where hamilton would brake when he passed his dad. maybe it is just all down to driving style

Ricciardo being the 'last of the late breakers' is a common misconception, he only did that to pull off some great moves. In actuality his driving style is a lot gentler on the brakes then some. That's why he struggled in the McLaren which required a hard, late breaking style.

that is true simply because these cars are perhaps not super fast on straights but able to go super quick in medium to low speed corners because of how the aerodynamics work, meaning that you almost get nothing out of late braking since speed at the apex is more important

The specific point being made was that being quicker on the throttle out of the corner was more effective than high entry speed and hard braking, U vs V the corner is not rewarding as it used to be.

Maybe because we was beaten by Gasly for two years in a row. In 21 Gasly got triple the points, 22 double. Yuki is very fast but he doesn't have the mental strength/capacity to deliver consistently enough over a season. Makes too many mistakes in races and behaves like a teenager.

Because Yuki is very average. His attitude is garbage. He's only around because of Honda and to be used as a measuring stick for whoever RB puts next to him. He is in no way "mega fast."

He is inconsistent

​@@johnj8069not yet

​@RAZGR1Z he is actually fast according to qualifying times

Why ? No one deserves jack shit. He can sit and wait his turn

@@Chris-sf2cp It's all these drive to survive fanboys that change their opinions after one race. They'd get Lawson in there, and then start hating on him when he doesn't do as well as they thought.

@@FordHoard Lawson beat Tsunoda in the pouring rain at Zandvoort unprepared and without knowing the car, then he finished 11th in Italy (with only 2 retirements), then got in Q3 in Singaporeand scored points, beat Tsunoda by schooling him in terms of race-craft in Japan (a track he discovered) and just made one mistake in all those 4 races. He was also few points away of being champion in Super Formula.

@@Chris-sf2cp As good as Théo Pourchaire in F2. Almost champion in his rookie season in Super Formula (just like Gasly). Beat Tsunoda 3-1, egotinto Q3 in Singapore and scored points. So yeah, he deserves that seat, firstly because he established himself in others categories, secondly because he did more than Ricciardo in just 4 races.

Interesting. You think this could explain why other older drivers are struggling too? Except Alonso who's exceptional l.

He has spent thousands of hours in the sim.

He was eating dust in 2021 when the cars were still flat bottom. McLaren gave him a completely different car and he got even worse.

That’s a really interesting point. However *many* of the race cars I’ve driven (an SCCA Mustang in particular) had very numb, vague steering. You don’t really get a lot of feedback through the wheel - it’s all in your inner ear.

Unless you have a yacht full of sponsorship money.

He had a 6 year peak from 2014-2020, that’s not an unlikely event. Imo he was a talented driver who had the problem (a serious one that is) of needing the car to specifically suit him (I.e be more balanced towards oversteer), which wasn’t apparent until he jumped into the McLaren which was more of an understeer balanced car. The ground effect cars tend to be more understeery as well which doesn’t help his case. The Red Bull is known to be one of the few very pointy cars which explains how Ricciardo was able to impress Horner enough to be given a second chance at testing, but at this point it’s possible that his inability to adapt has sacrificed his peak ability in a car that suits his driving style

"Still" would be more accurate

TOP 10 driver? That's assuming you put one those, Sainz, Leclerc, Hamilton, Russell, Verstappen, Piastri, Norris, Ocon, Gasly, Alonso behind him. So far, he hasn't proved to be better than those drivers, neither in raw result or dominance over teammates (got comprehensively beaten by Gaslky and immediately matched by Laswon).

No disrespect to your opinion here, but 15th best in a field of 20 is not good.

yes yuki is a little underrated and danny is where he should be with the car

Synonymous of Mark Webber also.

So far, only Jett Lawrence is breaking this pattern

@@AMLuc1320 no way, Mark was up there and a championship contender at one point up to the last race, Riccardo never was.

@@AMLuc1320 Mark Webber was few points away from a WC.

@@quentinhirschfeld9382 ....until he choked, when he had to win in Singapore.

well done

Team goon session confirmed

Checo also has an issue with qualifying but you can be sure he'll be overtaking most of the cars by the end of the race in most races.

You good?

someone call Maxtac we got a cyberpsycho

Uh, that's what he's doing. Unfortunately it's not working very well.