2024 Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix Highlights

Visa Cash App RB endured a difficult weekend at the 2024 Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix, with both of the team’s drivers missing the points. Daniel Ricciardo drove hard to advance from 16th on the grid to finish in 12th place, while Yuki Tsunoda crossed the line in 17th position.

Daniel Ricciardo

We didn’t get points today, but I feel much better than yesterday and am more pleased with how the day went. I was frustrated after qualifying as it didn’t help to start from the back, but today, I was able to put together a better race, as I really felt we had a strong showing. We were in that kind of midfield battle, and I think the cars in front of us were a bit faster, especially Pierre (Gasly), so we probably couldn’t do much more. I’m happy with the bigger picture of the race in terms of the pace we pushed during the times we had, catching Lance (Stroll) and Nico (Hulkenberg) towards the end of the race. Hopefully, in Monza, we’ll be even more okay putting it all together from start to finish and qualify better to have a more leisurely Sunday.

Yuki Tsunoda

We split the strategy across the garage, but it didn’t work this time, especially on my side. We knew it would be 50:50 with 2 stops, but the lap we pitted was too late, and the timing was wrong. Using the soft tyre and losing a position at the start was unideal, and then I was just stuck in traffic and always behind dirty air. I finished the race way behind where I started, which was frustrating. We certainly could have done better as a team, but we can learn from it, improve and work on things for the future.

Laurent Mekies – Team Principal

Of course, we wanted to start the second part of the season with a better performance than today’s. From qualifying onwards, it became clear that we were missing some performance compared to our nearest competitors and dropping your relative performance by just a tenth or so is the difference between fighting in the top 10 or not. We tried a few things in the race to make up some positions and took a bit of a risk by putting Yuki in a two-stop race, but it clearly did not work, and he was stuck in traffic for most of the race. Daniel had a good go at staying with the Astons in front all race long and drove a strong, consistent race, but this was not enough to get points today. It was not the smoothest weekend for us, but it was one that we will undoubtedly learn from as a team and come back stronger. Overall, we are well aware that we need to bring more speed to our car to keep fighting at the front of the ultra-tight midfield, and everyone is flat out in Faenza and in Bicester to bring more developments to the car soon.

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