F1 Hungarian Grand Prix 2019 | Daniel Ricciardo out in Q1

Daniel Ricciardo’s first season with Renault has crashed to a new low with the Aussie star caught out in a bizarre qualifying debacle.

Daniel Ricciardo was upset after qualifying.

Aussie F1 star Daniel Ricciardo’s poor start to his life with Renault has hit a new low after a Q1 exit in the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Ricciardo joined late with his first lap going 10th fastest before tumbling down the leaderboard to 18th with his final lap not improving his position.

He is set to start from the second last row of the grid and finished two-tenths of a second slower than Williams driver George Russell.

It’s the first time he hasn’t made it out of Q1 in 2019 with his previous worst result in qualifying seeing him finish 14th at the Austrian Grand Prix, where he started in 12th on the grid after other drivers copped penalties.

Ricciardo was caught on the final lap stuck in a queue.

As the Aussie accelerated around the outside, Racing Point’s Sergio Perez stopped his run and forced him to back out, meaning Ricciardo couldn’t accelerate down the pit straight.

He was joined in the early finish with both Williams and Racing Point drivers at the back of the grid.

Ricciardo’s teammate Nico Hulkenberg pushed into 12th to survive the first qualifying sector.

But Hulkenberg didn’t last too much longer, finishing 11th in Q2.

Not a good day for Daniel Ricciardo.

A clearly disappointed Ricciardo said “it’s clearly the most upset I’ve been in a while”.

“I actually felt ok but that last run, that’s when you’ve got to do it and it was a mess basically opening the lap,” Ricciardo said. “We put ourselves in traffic and at that point I felt we could have known what was going to happen better coming up to the last corner, if I needed to create space earlier, so I wasn’t creating space and then we got to the last corner and everyone’s backed up so what do you do?

“Do you try to pass them and keep your tyres temperature there or do you hang back and start the lap with cold tyres?

“So I tried to go and obviously Perez and the others weren’t going to have that so I felt like Perez and I just screwed each other. Just too late trying to make something happen and the lap was compromised.

“Tomorrow’s another day we’ll see what happens but right now, it’s certainly the most upset I’ve been in a while.”

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Perez had a different opinion, lashing Ricciardo as “very disrespectful” for his attempt to go around the outside.

It’s just the second time Perez has been eliminated in Q1 this season with the Mexican usually appearing in Q2 and Q3.

“We were stuck with traffic so everyone is trying to open a gap,” Perez said. “You see the car ahead and everyone’s just opening up and what Daniel tried was very disrespectful. He screwed up his lap and my lap too because I ended up too close to Norris and I think Daniel was close behind me We all know traffic is tricky in Q1.

“We spoke about it in the Drivers’ Briefing and the importance of being respectful of each other. For me, it was quite disrespectful. He’s an experienced driver and I didn’t expect that from him.

“We know this track isn’t the best for us anyway, but now we’re really in a tough place for tomorrow. It’s been a bad day for us, so let’s hope it gets better in the race.”

As Ricciardo plunged to rock bottom with Renault, his former Red Bull teammate Max Verstappen’s brilliant season continued with the Dutchman claiming pole position ahead of Mercedes pair Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton, with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc fourth.

Max Verstappen celebrates his first pole position.

It was amazingly Verstappen’s first pole position, edging Bottas by 0.018 seconds.

He becomes the 100th different pole sitter in the history of F1 racing.

Verstappen’s racing engineer came on the radio and said: “better late than never mate, congratulation.”

The 21-year-old Dutchman replied: “Yes, yes, this feels good, this feels really good.”

Despite having won seven races in his career, and starting from the front row of the gird seven times, Verstappen finally broke through.

After winning the German Grand Prix, Verstappen said

“It’s incredible. This one was still missing and the car has felt good all weekend,” he said. “You know it’s always going to be hard in qualifying. A big thank you to the team, the car was flying out there in qualifying, it was incredible.”

Red Bull principle Christian Horner said it was fantastic for Verstappen to finally break through with a pole position.

HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX QUALIFYING RESULTS

1. Max Verstappen (RED BULL)

2. Valtteri Bottas (MERCEDES)

3. Lewis Hamilton (MERCEDES)

4. Charles Leclerc (FERRARI)

5. Sebastian Vettel (FERRARI)

6. Pierre Gasly (RED BULL)

7. Lando Norris (MCLAREN)

8. Carlos Sainz (MCLAREN)

9. Romain Grosjean (HAAS)

10. Kimi Räikkönen (ALFA ROMEO)

11. Nico Hulkenberg (RENAULT)

12. Alexander Albon (TORO ROSSO)

13. Daniil Kvyat (TORO ROSSO)

14. Antonio Giovinazzi (ALFA ROMEO)

15. Kevin Magnussen (HAAS)

16. George Russell (WILLIAMS)

17. Sergio Perez (RACING POINT)

18. Daniel Ricciardo (RENAULT)

19. Lance Stroll (RACING POINT)

20. Robert Kubica (WILLIAMS)