Daniel Ricciardo

But the Australian showed his class to immediately head to Ferrari's hospitality in the aftermath of the race to apologise to Sainz for the incident. The pair ...

It’s good that he went and apologised to Carlos. It shouldn’t be happening.” What happened is very clear to everyone.” It’s not fun to ruin your day but also someone else’s, so one of those days.” The incident has really no mystery to it. Still positives from the weekend and Lando got up on the box [which] showed we got some good things going. “I went into [Turn] 1 feeling like it was all under control.

Daniel Ricciardo has hit rock bottom after he was caught up in some drama and criticised for a costly error in a disastrous race in Italy. Matthew Sullivan.

It’s very important for his season this year.” “I’m sorry to him for that, it sucks. “Lap 1 incidents are tough to take and it ruined mine and Carlos’s race,” he wrote. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc had a podium finish locked in but he spun off the track when he was pushing hard late in the race and did well to salvage sixth place. “Immediately after the race, you could see he’s had a tough one, but the first thing that he did, he was coming to the Ferrari box to apologise to me. “But I don’t think there’s much you can do about it. Sainz said afterwards he had no hard feelings towards Ricciardo and appreciated him making the effort to go into the Ferrari garage and apologise. “Will take this one on the chin and look forward to another go in Miami.” Afterwards, Ricciardo admitted he was likely in the wrong and made the effort to go inside Ferrari’s motor home to apologise to Sainz personally. “I would see the fault a little bit more on Daniel, but it’s okay to put it down as a racing incident.” Sainz was furious to have his second DNF in a row and believed Ricciardo didn’t give him enough room to pass on the track. Sainz couldn’t get back on the track and was ruled out of the race in a complete disaster for Ferrari at home.