AlphaTauri Aims to Overtake Williams in Tight Battle for Seventh Place

Despite achieving his best result since the last year’s Mexican Grand Prix and relentlessly pursuing George Russell’s Mercedes, Ricciardo felt that he could have achieved an even higher position. The red flag incident caused by Kevin Magnussen’s crash affected AlphaTauri’s strategy and hindered their race. Ricciardo acknowledged that the red flag hurt their race but emphasized the importance of driver safety, stating, “That hurt our race because strategy and everything was looking pretty smooth. Obviously, the main thing is he’s okay. It obviously bunched everyone up and allowed some cars to use a medium tire, which we didn’t have. I think, at that point, it was probably a bit more nervous on the pit wall. But in the big picture, we have to be very happy. I was honestly trying as much as I could.”