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Daniel Ricciardo wants a few days away from Formula 1 after another difficult Monaco Grand Prix to add to the collection.

While Lando Norris was still battling with the weakening symptoms of tonsillitis, it was again the Briton who shone over his McLaren team-mate Ricciardo in Monaco.

Norris qualified P5, crossing the line P6 after Mercedes’ George Russell had performed a successful undercut, but Ricciardo was all the way down in P13 at the chequered flag.

Last season, Ricciardo was lapped in Monaco by his team-mate and the 2022 staging was another underwhelming display to add to an unwanted collection in his McLaren career, the team’s CEO Zak Brown having recently admitted the Ricciardo-McLaren alliance is not meeting expectations.

Ricciardo stressed Monaco at the best of times is a very difficult circuit to drive, let alone when it must be done in the wet as was the case this time around, but he is disappointed with how the race weekend went and now looks forward to switching off from Formula 1 after the dreaded debrief.

Speaking to reporters post-race, Ricciardo said: “Certainly tricky. I mean, these conditions, it’s not often you drive in Monaco in the wet, and the wet is already a handful, let alone on the tightest street circuit.

“We got to a point where we were slow on the extreme [wet tyre], but to fit an inter for a few laps I thought I would have just lost more time, so tried to ride it out so I could just put a slick on.

“Ultimately this weekend just wasn’t a good weekend, just not