Ricciardo’s “huge” loss of power was revealed after a McLaren F1 car damage

Ricciardo was an unfortunate victim of the first corner carnage in Hungary after catching up and spinning in the hand-to-hand battle between Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll and Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari.

While the Australian was able to continue, the damage to his McLaren MCL35M hampered his recovery efforts and left him out of the points.

Afterward, Ricciardo said that luckily he would have been eliminated on the spot as the damage affected his race.

“I know that sounds negative, but because you have a damage, your race is so endangered,” said a frustrated Ricciardo.

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“Of course you want to do the race to see if you can score, maybe other crazy things happen, but it was a very tricky race for us after that.

“It was enough [damage] to make it a long and painful race, ”he added. “We were able to hold onto the points for a while, but we couldn’t get through the field.

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“That stopped us from attacking. Every time we approached we lost so much more downforce. I have pain for myself in the car, but also for the whole team. My race and Lando’s race were over. A difficult task for the team. “

Seidl later revealed the true extent of Ricciardo’s damage and the resulting drop in performance.

“I think the front wing of Daniel’s car was damaged, then the bargeboards,” said Seidl.

“The new ones were badly damaged and the floor on the side in front of the rear wheels on the right was also damaged, so a big loss.

“Probably seven, eight tenths per lap plus of course the consequences that it has on the stint.”

When asked whether a second pit stop could have helped Ricciardo’s race to catch up, Seidl replied: “I don’t think it would have changed anything.

“We just didn’t have the pace with all the damage that the car had to hold out to the end. Daniel tried, but he was also stuck behind George [Russell] for some.

“He destroyed his tires and in the end – and with the damage he had, the degradation was a lot higher than normal, so unfortunately we had nothing left to fight for.”