Ricciardo was an unfortunate victim of൲ the first-corner carnage in Hungary after being caught up and spun ar🌠ound in the melee involving Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll and Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari. 

While tᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚhe Australian was able to continue, the damage sustained to his McLaren MCL35M hindered his recovery effort and left him finishing outside of the points. 

Afterwards, Ricciardo said he would have happily been elimi꧟nated on the spot due to how much the damage affected ജhis race. 

“I know that sounds negative, butꦏ because you have damage♓ your race is so compromised,” a frustrated Ricciardo explained. 

“Of course you want to do the race to see if you get💮 some points, maybe there’s som๊e other crazy things that 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 ❀hang onto the points for a while but we could not go through t🍨he field. 

“It stopped us from attacking. Every time we got close we lost so much more downforce. I feel pain for me in the car but also for the whol🌺e team. My race and Lando’s race were done. A tough one for the team.”

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

“On Danꦬiel’s car, I think the front wing was damaged, then the bargeboards,” Seidl said.ꩲ 

“The new ones got damaged h🅺eavily and the floor on the side front of the rear wheels on the right-hand side was damaged as well, so huge loss. 

“Probably seven, eight tenths𓄧 a lap plus obviously the consequencesꦏ it has then on the stint.”

Asked whether a second pitꦅ stop could have helped Ricciardo’s recovery bid, Seidl replied: “I don’t think it would have changed anything. 

“We simply didn’t have the pace♕ with all the damage the car had to hang in there until the end. Daniel tried but he was also stuck behind George [Russell] for quite some bits. 

“He destroyed his tyres and in t🦂he end - plus with the damage he had the degradation was quite a bit higher than normal, so we had nothing left in his hands to fight for anything unfortunately.”