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TV graphic savagely mocks Ricciardo before race - CtrlF.XYZ

TV graphic savagely mocks Ricciardo before race

2 years ago 158

Daniel Ricciardo's unspeakable 2022 signifier has been mocked by an improbable culprit - the sport itself.

Ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix, F1TV's subscribers were listening to presenter Laura Winter and operator Jamie Chadwick preview the race, during which clip they discussed Ricciardo's struggles, accompanied by a changeable of the embattled Aussie and his technologist with a TV graphic.

The graphic would usually lone see the driver's name, squad and contention fig - but this 1 had an added caption: "struggling again".

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The pre-race amusement was produced by the Formula One Management (FOM) arsenic portion of its F1TV subscription service, and was not portion of the F1 satellite feed.

In his worst showing of the year, Ricciardo finished 17th of 18 runners - up of lone Nicholas Latifi successful the Williams, and down the Haas of Kevin Magnussen who deed the partition connected thigh two.

The contention was won by Max Verstappen - his 10th of the year, equalling his tally from his championship-winning play past year.

Ricciardo started 17th, and was lone successful 16th astatine the extremity of the 2nd thigh erstwhile Magnussen grazed the partition connected the tally to crook three.

It would beryllium the highest successful the bid helium would tally each day. He dropped to plum past erstwhile helium pitted astatine the extremity of thigh 11, and helium had climbed to lone 18th erstwhile helium stopped again astatine the extremity of thigh 27.

He was moving 17th astatine the midpoint of the race, and dropped to 19th aft being passed by the 2 Haas' of Schumacher and the recovering Magnussen successful consecutive laps.

He would stay 2nd past for the remainder of the day, lone moving up courtesy of retirements to Yuki Tsunoda and Valtteri Bottas.

After the race, Ricciardo said helium knew his broadside of the store was going to conflict successful the contention aft qualifying truthful poorly.

"It was ever going to beryllium a tricky Sunday due to the fact that of wherever we started and the quality of the track," helium told Sky Sports.

"The archetypal fewer laps were not excessively bad. I deliberation we made immoderate places present and determination but starting that acold backmost its hard to marque a large impression, you request a large quality to marque immoderate moves and overtakes.

"In wide air, it felt similar I had a small spot of gait to usage - but it didn't ever look to past long. So, evidently different challenging weekend."

Ricciardo had earlier fixed the biggest hint yet of his plans for 2023.

He was filmed having a treatment with Red Bull's Sergio Perez. While the remainder of the speech was inaudible, Ricciardo could intelligibly beryllium heard saying "take a twelvemonth disconnected and travel backmost successful '24".

No different discourse was provided.

Ricciardo is inactive being linked to the presently-vacant spot astatine Alpine, though AlphaTauri's Pierre Gasly is becoming favourite to onshore the seat.

A spot inactive remains astatine Williams alongside Alex Albon, and perchance astatine Haas alongside Magnussen.

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