In what was a really exciting final qualifying session with different options taken in preparing for the timed laps, Red Bull Racing's Daniel Ricciardo struggled in the low-speed corners in comparison to his front row teammate and will start Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix from down in 7th place.
The team will have a look at the Aussie racer's car in the hopes that they can put things right for tomorrow's race but despite that, Daniel has a reputation as being a great overtaker and he'll be fighting hard tomorrow, without a doubt.
"We have been strong all weekend but in Qualifying we just didn't have any grip. I topped the times in FP2 and Max did the same this morning so we didn't really touch the car from yesterday, but every time I left the pits today I just had no grip,โ he said.
โWe tried experimenting in Q3 and doing an extra warm-up lap to try and give the tyres something extra, but it seemed that the grip I had when I left the box, was the grip I had until the end of each run.โ
โSometimes you get one set of tyres that you can't turn on or warm up properly and you might lose some time, but every run it seemed to be the same story. This morning the track was really cold and we were still able to post a time on the first lap, so it should have been a breeze to get the tyres up to temperature this afternoon.โ
โIf we can get the car back to what we had before Qualifying then I think we can still fight for a podium tomorrow, but this is confusing and we really need to understand what happened in the last hour."
