Daniel Ricciardo

The Aussie finally beat his teammate as both drivers finished in the top 10 - but neither wanted to celebrate.

So I just would have thought he had a bit more pace and could attack Fernando much better. “Early in the race ... I didn’t pass when I easily could have. “As a team, I think we just did a good job today, we did what we wanted, which was to finish in the points.” “He just had the luck of the VSC pitstop, and he came out on the medium at the end. The drivers begrudgingly accepted the outcome, though both pointed to Ricciardo declining to pass Norris early in the race and Norris’s “tough decision” to do the same towards the end. While McLaren had refused to let Ricciardo pass Norris earlier in the race, the team was willing to let an increasingly frustrated Norris pass Ricciardo.

Lando Norris has accepted the team orders imposed by his McLaren Formula 1 team that obliged him to stay behind teammate Daniel Ricciardo at the end of the ...

At the end I think he was in my DRS and he was probably the same, he probably could have passed me with a lap or two to go. "Early in the race I was in his DRS and I lifted, I didn't pass when I easily could have. "So I think just racing for a normal position at the end. He just had the luck of the VSC pitstop, and he came out on the medium at the end. He still would have been probably behind Fernando, and I still would have been behind, it's just he got the VSC pitstop. And it was a tough decision whether to really do it or not.

After a team orders wrangle during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, is the McLaren dynamic in danger of being upset.

He even had a cheeky look at a pass down the inside into Turn 1 before thinking better of attempting it. Stay where you are, the Briton was told by his race engineer Will Joseph. An anomaly occurred as the hard tyres appeared to work better than the mediums for both drivers. Seidl needs to be right in continuing to have that faith for on the evidence of Baku, and if Ricciardo maintains his initial resurgence, there could be a few fireworks ahead. And that was where frustration began to creep in. Norris complied, but was unhappy.

F1's new cars are bouncing like a porpoise, and it is causing drivers real pain.

The aerodynamics become a problem when the car moves too close to the track and loses the downforce. "When I got out of the car, I just felt shooken, like I just felt rattled," Ricciardo said. The cycle then repeats and even gradually becomes more pronounced. The new design, however, also causes cars to bounce up and down more than expected on long straightaways. It makes you a little bit ill." My feeling is like a pro basketball player, when they get the ball really low [Ricciardo imitates a basketball being dribbled very fast close to the ground], like that, I just felt like somebody is bouncing our helmet."

Daniel Ricciardo was at the centre of controversy in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after team orders prevented him from overtaking McLaren teammate Lando Norris ...

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Ricciardo cops 'raw deal' in McLaren order... but his teammate isn't happy either.

“We’ll probably talk about it now … but happy to be back in the points and both cars. “Daniel did help me out in the middle, it was one lap that he wasn’t allowed to overtake me on,” he said. Nonetheless, he added: “I think it was fair, I don’t think what we did was incorrect. But these are things we talk about before the race so it’s not a shock or a surprise. “We obviously played around a bit with team orders. It wouldn’t have mattered if it’s eighth or ninth but as a driver you just want to be that further ahead position.”

Max Verstappen won the race ahead of Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez, after both Ferrari drivers retired early in the race. Mercedes driver George Russell came ...

Ricciardo said he hoped he was finally syncing with the car after a tough start to the season. The Australian had his race compromised at about half-distance when he was told to stay behind his teammate Lando Norris who was in a strategy battle with Alpine's Fernando Alonso. Ricciardo was one of the only drivers who started the hardest compound tyre, opting to pit later in the race to be on a faster tyre at the end.