(Alexandre Guillaumot DPPI for Renault Sport F1)
Infiniti Red Bull Racing had a very disappointing Chinese
Grand Prix at the Shanghai International Circuit on Sunday as they experienced
a DNF with Daniil Kvyat suffering an engine failure. The RB11 looked like it
was going to be competitive this weekend however both Daniil Kvyat and Daniel
Ricciardo struggled.
Speaking following the race, Daniil Kvyat sated:
‘This weekend has been a bit tricky, and not the
happy ending we would have liked. I saw a lot of smoke coming from the rear of
my car, I am not sure what happened but the team are investigating. It’s not an
easy situation, but we have to stay strong, I am with the team and we will all
work on it together, and we’ll keep our heads high heading into Bahrain.’
Ricciardo seemed to struggle with the handling and brake
balance of the RB11 as the Australian made a number of uncharacteristic errors.
He started the race from 11th place but got bogged down at the start
as the car went into anti stall which meant that he was forced into repeating
the start procedure for a second time.
He went on to recover slightly and finished the race in
ninth place salvaging two points for the Infiniti Red Bull Racing Team.
The two points scored by Ricciardo means that the Milton
Keynes based outfit move back ahead of their sister team Scuderia Toro Rosso in
the Constructors championship. Speaking after the race, Infiniti Red Bull
Racing Team Principal Christian Horner commented by saying:
‘It was a frustrating afternoon for us. Daniel
had a poor start which put him in the back of the field. Daniil had a
reasonable start; we took the different strategic option to start on the hard
tyre which struggled to warm up in the early laps, and then his race was
unfortunately cut prematurely short with an engine failure. Daniel recovered
reasonably well to finish ninth after making some decent overtaking moves, but
today’s results were not what we were looking for.”
Renault Sport F1 endured a nightmare race as their suffered
two engine failures, one for each of their team’s with Kvyat at Infiniti Red
Bull Racing and Max Verstappen at Scuderia Toro Rosso. Speaking following the
race, Renault’s Thierry Salvi said:
‘Obviously a difficult weekend reliability-wise.
Daniil had an ICE problem that is under investigation as we need to fully
understand the issue before the next race. Daniel worked hard to recover from a
very bad start. We have to stay focused on the reliability first to fix our
issues as quickly as possible.’
© Ben Johnston 2015
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