[Antilochos]

Cyril, WTF are you thinking saying this publicly?

https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/33108/ren...-him-.html

Behind closed doors, muppet. Sometimes I wonder about these team principals / team owners.

I literally came on here to say the exact same thing Morini. Ricciardo had a choice at the start of the GP... 

A) Accept collision from Perez and definitely lose a front wing and possibly end his race in a crash...

or

B) Take avoiding action and possibly come out unscathed and live to fight another day

It did't turn out like that. Danny made one of his usual lightening starts, and Perez did his usual trick of closing the door far too late and leaving his opponent nowhere to go. Ricciardo was between a rock and a hard place. He lost a front wing, but also half of his diffuser and then his PU apparently developed a bug and so they retired the car. What the hell was Cyril thinking? Perhaps he's just realizing now that the issue with Renault hasn't been the drivers, it is the car, and Red Bull were right, the engines suck. Clearly fourth best engines on the grid for power and reliability.

How about a choice C) Don't place your car where there is no room? Like, hit the brakes before moving in.

I like Ricciardo (as far as you can judge a personality on tv) and think highly of him as a driver. But last Sunday he just made a mistake, like every driver sometimes does. No big deal if it doesn't happen every race weekend. Maybe the team and car is not all that, maybe Ricciardo would have another problem during the race that was out of his influence, but going on the grass straight away and hitting that bump, that was only the driver.