It was very disappointing Mexican Grand Prix for Aussie F1 star Daniel Ricciardo, who started Sunday's race on the back foot after taking a penalty to avoid the exact scenario that put him out of the race.
Sadly his Red Bull suffered yet another MGU-H failure after all his hard work getting up to seventh place before the engine decided to give up the fight and he was forced to retire.
If it wasn't for that, he surely would have finished on the podium alongside his teammate.
"At the start I did what I could, it was pretty close and there was a lot going on, but I thought I made quick progress. I told Helmut in the morning that I would get up to seventh by the end of the first lap, I was a couple of laps off, but I got there and it was all looking pretty good,โ Daniel said.
โI think it was lap six when the turbo started to sound strange and then I had no power. I was able to limp back to the pits but that was obviously race over. Friday looked good, things went bad yesterday afternoon and then got worse today. We put the new power unit in last night and now we have a suspected MGU-H failure.โ
โThere seems to be something fundamental going on with the engines, we've been coming here for the last couple of years so there shouldn't have been any surprises. I guess the altitude and temperatures have been really hard to stay on top of and it's been a pretty grim weekend for some of us.โ
โIt's a shame to be out so early again, I guess this is a little bit of what Max experienced at the start of the year and it's not so fun. I just hope now that we won't have to take more penalties in Brazil. I don't know how I'm smiling and I'm definitely hurting inside but what can I do, I can't change the situation."
