Permane on how Ricciardo’s huge experience worked against him:

— Alan Permane, Racing Bulls’ Racing Director, reflected on Daniel Ricciardo’s struggles in F1, attributing some of his inconsistency to overthinking and mental hurdles.

“I don’t know and he doesn’t either. We sat down and talked, tried to figure it out. I was certainly worried that he was overthinking things – he was concerned about the tyres, that they couldn’t cope with the speed he would be asking of them,” Permane said.

— Permane suggested that Ricciardo’s extensive experience might have worked against him, leading him to overanalyze situations compared to his teammate, Yuki Tsunoda:

“It felt like he was using his huge experience to second-guess things that potentially weren’t correct, because Yuki wasn’t and he was driving as quick as he could and it was working.”

— Ricciardo showed flashes of brilliance, such as during the Miami Grand Prix Sprint qualifying and race, where he briefly seemed to return to form:

“Ahh, it’s all clicked. That was the Daniel I knew at Renault,” Permane recalled.

— However, Ricciardo’s performance remained inconsistent, as illustrated by his drop in pace later that same weekend:

“You do that in the sprint on Saturday morning, then you go for [grand prix] qualifying in the afternoon and he’s 18th. It was a bit of a mystery, honestly,” Permane concluded.

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VIA: [gpblog]