2024 Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix Highlights

Visa Cash App RB’s Yuki Tsunoda delivered one of the drives of the day to steer his VARCB 01 into the points with a season-best seventh-place finish. This followed Daniel Ricciardo’s fourth-place finish in the sprint to complete a strong weekend for the team. Tsunoda’s finish also helped to move him up into the top 10 in the Drivers’ Standings.

Daniel Ricciardo

Entering the race you always have some optimism, but yesterday’s quali hurt and, unfortunately, I think was the shape of today’s race. We were stuck in traffic in the race and were simply not quick enough to come through the field. When we were surrounded by the other cars and fighting with them, we struggled a lot to use our pace compared to what we did yesterday in the Sprint with the clean air. Compared to other cars, I think that with our setup we were quite down on straight-line speed. I couldn’t do anything and was stuck behind them. We’ll definitely be looking into it in our debrief, but generally, we know that we have to qualify better, like I did on Friday, which has also been the mirror of yesterday’s Sprint. Taking the positives, the team leaves Miami very happy; I had a good Sprint-qualifying and Sprint in the previous days, and Yuki also got some points today. I’m also genuinely happy for Lando, big congratulations to him. He is a rival but also a friend. I know how talented he is and I knew it was just a matter of time for him to take his first win.

Yuki Tsunoda

Very happy, what a great job by the team. It’s been an incredible week in which we scored in both races. We kind of expected we would have a good performance here, but the most important thing is that we achieved it. As a team, we stuck to our plan and didn’t make any mistakes today. As for me, overall, I’m happy with my driving even though I made a mistake at the start. I reset myself and kept going, and especially in the last stint ,where I was just driving by myself, I was pushing and able to achieve similar lap times to the cars in front. The team developed a great car and I appreciate them a lot. The amount of push from the factory is incredible and, in the end, we were able to score well-deserved points.

We were able to progress quickly from the start of the season, so I’m looking forward to the future. The next race in Imola is kind of another home race for me, so I hope we’ll be able to continue our rhythm and achieve a good result in front of our home crowd, especially people from the factory. Everyone is doing a fantastic job and we’ll definitely keep pushing!

Laurent Mekies – Team Principal

In its third year, the Miami Grand Prix has established itself as a great event and the popularity of our sport continues to grow at an amazing rate in the USA. Here, alongside exciting track action, the fans are treated to a whole range of shows, concerts and events. We enjoyed contributing to the scene with our one-off livery, which was well-received by the fans.

We came here with a few updates and they lived up to our expectations; our drivers played a huge part in extracting the car’s performance with a P4 for Daniel and P8 with Yuki at the end of the Sprint race yesterday. It was a great result for the team. I want to thank everyone once again in Faenza and Bicester for their continuous effort, striving for performance. It was particularly gratifying to see Daniel back in great form, demonstrating the skills and determination we know have always been there. Unfortunately, he started on the back foot today from P20. In the second stint, he got stuck in traffic and could not move up the order and had to settle for P15. As for Yuki, his fourth Q3 appearance out of six races this season underlines how consistently he is performing and today he underlined his maturity with an intelligent, yet aggressive and super quick drive from 10th on the grid to seventh at the flag. Excellent work!

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