McLaren, Seidl apologizes to Ricciardo and admits: Norris scores points not only thanks to us – 2022

Two races six points: it is not the spoils that everyone expected at home McLarenwith Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norrisappeared in clear difficulty both in Bahrain that in Saudi Arabia. In particular, in Jeddah, the Australian former Red Bull was even forced to retire due to a drop in power accused by his MCL36.

Which led, Andrew Seidl, team principal of the Woking team, to apologize to the driver for not providing him with a reliable car. Below is an excerpt of his statements reported by his colleagues Sportskeeda.

McLare, Seidl

Here is what Seidl stated:

“Of course we can only apologize to Daniel for not giving him the material he deserved to have. It was a difficult weekend for him. With the strategy we chose for him, in order to compensate for his disadvantage after he got stuck in the beginning. of the stint, he could have finished the race right where Lando finished “.

On the reason for Ricciardo’s retirement

“We have to do some analyzes, because we still don’t understand exactly what led to his retirement. It’s something that happened for the first time.”

On the McLaren situation

“Qualifying? For sure, we did two great laps with Lando and Daniel who maximized everything we could give them right now with this car. But obviously, let’s not forget that in the race we finished in seventh place also because we benefited from retirement. from some drivers. It is simply good motivation for all of us to keep working hard to improve the performance of the car in the coming weeks and race as fast as possible. “

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