Daniel Ricciardo rages at own team RB after disrespectful act after Hungarian Grand Prix disaster

While McLaren’s Oscar Piastri was celebrating after joining his fellow Aussie as a Formula One race winner, Daniel Ricciardo was left to rue the RB strategy call that saw him sink to 12th at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

The veteran Ricciardo’s future is in the spotlight again at a weekend where Red Bull’s Sergio Perez and RB’s Yuki Tsunoda crashed out in qualifying.

With just one race left — next week’s Belgian Grand Prix — before the mid-season break, Ricciardo appears to be the safest pair of hands if Red Bull boss Christian Horner makes a change to boost the constructors’ championship fight.

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And, if it comes, Ricciardo will welcome promotion for reasons beyond driving a faster car.

The 35-year-old fumed at his own team RB after being forced to make an early pit stop to chase rivals around him who had started on the soft tyre, and not receiving an apology for that decision ruining his day.

“You don’t want to pull in the pits. You get the call and you know this isn’t the thing to do but you get the call late and there’s no time to question it,” an exasperated Ricciardo said after the race.

“Because then if you miss a lap it’s even worse. But as soon as I pulled in, the cars on softs had pulled in, we’re on a medium, let’s go — let’s use our clear air, let’s use our pace we got.

“And then we come out in traffic and it’s DRS train. And for what? We’re all then on the same tyre and it was… that was one of the worst ones I’ve had in 250-something races.

“That was a long old frustrating race where I had a lot of… anger.”

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