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Daniel Ricciardo: “I think we should have just gone long”

Daniel Ricciardo believed that in hindsight he should have followed the lead of team-mate Max Verstappen and adopted a one-stop strategy during the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after finishing fifth in the final race of 2016. The Red Bull Racing ace had started third on the grid but dropped behind Kimi Raikkonen at the start, and despite getting back ahead of the Finn during the pit stops found himself jumped by Verstappen as a result of the extra stop, and then by Sebastian Vettel as the German ran the faster Supersoft tyre in the final stint. “I don’t want to be too down as I’m still fifth,” said Ricciardo. “I’m just frustrated in how the strategy played out in the end. We had the...
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