Tsunoda 'very happy' after P9 finish in Hungary.
Yuki Tsunoda credits his team for rebuilding his car overnight, after a large crash in qualifying, to finish P9 in the 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix.
21 July 2024
Formula One - Official Site (Video)

'Very happy';

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/ts...06185602620215


‘I didn’t expect that!’ – Tsunoda reflects on dramatic Q3 crash in Budapest qualifying
20 July 2024
Formula One - Official Site

The red flags flew for a second time in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix after a dramatic moment for RB’s Yuki Tsunoda – who wound up airborne after pushing too hard on the exit of Turn 5 at the Hungaroring. Tsunoda’s stable mate Sergio Perez had already crashed his Red Bull a few corners further up the road in the opening segment of qualifying, bringing out the first set of red flags.

“To be honest, I felt great in the turn – I didn’t expect that!” said Tsunoda. “I just ran wide to be honest… Probably because I was on the limit, it’s obviously Q3, and half of the tyre went on the grass – but to be honest with those kind of things, it normally happens. But probably because it was wet, it kind of exaggerated it and I went wide. To be honest, until that corner – I mean, even Turn 5, the lap was great so it’s [a shame].”

‘Tsunoda reflects on dramatic Q3 crash’;

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/a...kQtiYWcFUkU7UZ


FIA replaces Turn 5 grass strip with gravel after Tsunoda crash
13:33 Sun, 21 Jul 2024
Michael Delaney
F1i.com

Following Yuki Tsunoda's dramatic crash in Saturday’s Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying, the FIA has taken swift action to prevent similar incidents occurring at the Hungaroring's Turn 5.

RB CEO Peter Bayer elaborated on the issue, speaking to Motorsport.com. “It was mentioned in the drivers' briefing,” Bayer said. “The ground sank a little and there is a wave [created by the bump] that has the effect like a sausage kerb. He found it.”

"Following Yuki Tsunoda’s incident in qualifying, the FIA has reviewed all available data as is customary with any on-track incident,” read a statement from the governing body. "After consulting with the circuit, overnight changes were made, and the last four metres of the grass strip behind the exit kerb at Turn 5 have been replaced with gravel.”

‘FIA replaces Turn 5 grass strip with gravel’;

https://f1i.com/news/514518-fia-repl...oda-crash.html


'Made it so difficult': Daniel Ricciardo shares why Hungarian GP was ‘one of the worst’ F1 races of his career
22 July 2024
Ben Evans
F1 Oversteer

Daniel Ricciardo says Hungarian GP strategy was ‘one of the worst’ of his Formula 1 career. Asked about how the race panned out, Ricciardo said: “That was one of the worst ones [strategy decisions] I’ve had in 250-something races, that was a long old frustrating race where I just had a lot of anger.

“You don’t want to pull in the pits … you get the call, and you know this isn’t the thing to do. You get the call late and there’s no time to question it, because then if you miss a lap it’s even worse. But as soon as I pulled in, the cars on soft [tyres] had [already] pulled in, we’re on a medium [tyre] so let’s go, let’s use the pace we’ve got – and then we come out in traffic and it’s just a DRS train and, for what? We’re all then on the same tyre.”

“I felt like we’d taken ourselves out of the race so early, and then we’re expected to fight a car that’s coming one second a lap quicker on newer tyres. What do you want me to do? We just made it so difficult for ourselves when we had pace and we could have just stayed out, clear air, stay calm and do what we’d done all weekend. We did a race today, but we didn’t do a race if you know what I mean. We were just driving around.”

‘One of the worst’;

https://www.f1oversteer.com/news/dan...of-his-career/


Daniel Ricciardo radio message draws attention after miserable Hungarian Grand Prix
22 Jul 2024
Elizabeth Blackstock
PlanetF1.com

“I’m really trying to bite my tongue, but. You must know how I feel about the first stop,” Ricciardo said as he pulled into parc fermé. “OK, understood,” his race engineer Pierre Hamelin replied. “If you feel the same, please…” “We need to review everything,” was the final call from the VCARB team.

Understandably, Ricciardo had a lot to say about the call after the race. “Why they pitted me when they did at the beginning was, we followed the soft [tire-shod] cars in,” Ricciardo told assembled media. They’ve just come in, we have a clear track, and we decided to pit behind them and put ourselves in a DRS train, on the same tire — we’re all on a hard.”

“That was… I’ve had a lot of races, and I’ve had a lot of frustrating ones, but that’s up there. We had the pace, and we basically gave Yuki the race that we had in front of us, and we both could have done that. And we didn’t.”

“I’m really trying to bite my tongue”;

https://www.planetf1.com/news/daniel...ian-grand-prix


Furious Daniel Ricciardo rips RB team over dodgy strategy call in Hungarian Grand Prix
July 21, 2024
Damien McCartney
Channel 9's Wide World of Sports

Starting ninth with RB teammate Tsunoda in 10th, the pair were both jumped by the fast-starting Alex Albon and Kevin Magnussen on the soft tyres. Tsunoda did not pit when Ricciardo did. He stayed out and completed his first pitstop on lap 29 – a lap after Ricciardo completed his second stop. Ricciardo said he knew the call to pit was the wrong one straight away, but explained it came far too late – as he rounded the corner immediately before the pit entry – for him to argue the point.

"It's a late call, box, box, box, and you pit," he said. "Honestly, as soon as I'm pulling in the pits I'm questioning it, but you can't (do anything about it). You get called in ... and you have to react. We talk about strategies and that, but two cars jumped us at the start with a soft tyre. That's fine, let them go. They pit and we follow them to then just be on their strategy.”

"We would have had clear air and a chance to, I think from what I understand, do Yuki's race (and stay out). Honestly, I was expecting more. On the in-lap I was waiting for 'Sorry, we f---ed up', and I didn't get it. That made me even more angry." Ricciardo was running 11th in the closing stages, but was demoted to 12th by the Aston Martin of Lance Stroll on fresher tyres, which only frustrated the Aussie more.

“I'm pulling in the pits I'm questioning it”;

https://www.nine.com.au/sport/motors...22-p5jvfr.html


Ricciardo on F1 future: “Planning ahead in this sport is not the right thing to do”
Daniel Ricciardo is taking it race by race as he heads into one of the most important events of his career.
23 July 2024
Mat Coch
Speedcafe

“Definitely take it as it comes,” he said of his current approach to his future. “You just can't afford to look too far ahead. Planning ahead in this sport is not the right thing to do, so it's race by race. That's the approach.”

“Obviously just trying to be present and making sure I'm fully in the moment and giving everything I can on that given day. That's definitely the approach I'm taking. It's also how you're perceived in this sport,” he added.

“You're as good as your last race. You can have five bad races and the you have this amazing result, and everyone's like ‘Well, we knew that they could do it'.”

‘Taking it race by race’;

https://speedcafe.com/ricciardo-on-f...t-thing-to-do/