Daniel Ricciardo continues to impress with its overruns dazzling

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The australian rider of the team Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo

Daniel Ricciardo is beginning to make a habit from back in the pack in the F1 due to its overruns dazzling.

The driver of team Red Bull won the fifth victory of his career at the Grand Prix of Azerbaijan in June, after starting from the 10th position and finished in fifth place in the Grand Prix of Great Britain in July after being left in the bottom of the grid.

The Australian has handed out this Sunday at the Grand Prix of Italy, weaving through his rivals to finish off the podium after receiving another penalty, which was relegated to 16th place at the start.

“Two of my shopping favorite this year have started in the back of the grid — Silverstone and it said Ricciardo. I had a real pace to the end. “

His overtaking at Monza, and added a little spice to a race over it from the beginning to the end by Lewis Hamilton.

“I think it is one of the best pilots in the art of passing. It is able to brake very late while retaining the rope. It is of the Mansell all spit ! ” said the technical director of Red Bull, Christian Horner, referring to Nigel Mansell, world champion in 1992.

Ricciardo has somewhat skate of his tyres at the start, which prevented him to improve his 16th position. But he has not lost time to make another comeback.

The conquest of Raikonnen

After overtaking the Force India of Sergio Perez at the second chicane which allowed Ricciardo to install among the top 10, it was the last of the leaders to stop the wells.

A stop perfectly orchestrated has put Ricciardo in a position to tackle the Ferrari pilot Kimi Raikkonen.

The 41st of the 53-lap race, Ricciardo has doubled Raikkonen at the end of the main straight line when the Finn braked earlier at the entrance of the first chicane.

“I recognize the merit of having demonstrated sportsmanship, but to be honest, I would have done this overflow, regardless of the driver, mentioned Ricciardo. Especially when you get the pack, and that you have a good rhythm, and the opponent has little importance. “

Installed at the fourth position, Ricciardo has placed himself in the chase of Sebastian Vettel in the other Ferrari.

Ricciardo retranchait more than a second ahead of Vettel on each lap on the ring of speed (Monza) — and he signed the fastest lap in the process —, but he ended up running out of time.

“I could see Seb, and the idea of a podium was tempting. So I tried to catch up with it until the end, ” added Ricciardo. But I think that he has managed to accelerate a little of his pace and I exploited to the maximum my tires. “

This result has, however, allowed Ricciardo to increase his lead over Raikkonen in the battle for fourth place in the drivers ‘ standings. Ricciardo has picked up two more points than Raikkonen and is now six points ahead with seven races to go.

“The guys have made the stop at the pits the fastest and I have also managed the fastest lap, so it’s not bad,” said Ricciardo, among the favorites of the fans at Monza because of its Italian roots. You can almost call it a perfect day. We would not have been able to do much better given our position at the start.Of course, I wanted to be on the podium even if it seemed unreal, but I believe that it will come next year. “

Alonso expects the change at McLaren before deciding for its future

Madrid — The driver Fernando Alonso has said that he would wait for the decision from McLaren on a possible engine change before taking his own on his future within the british team of Formula 1, Tuesday, on the private channel on Spanish Antena 3. “McLaren and Ferrari are the stables of historic F1. And three years without being competitive to the stables of this caliber, it is the limit, pointed out Alonso. They need to find a solution, one of them would be to change the engine, and I’m going to wait logically their decision before they take mine, ” said the double world champion of 2005 and 2006. Since its arrival in 2015 in the british team from the Scuderia, Alonso, 36 years old, winner of 32 Grands Prix in his career, is never on the podium.

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