‘Ricciardo’s embarrassing mistake shouldn’t be happening’

Taking out Carlos Sainz on the opening lap of the Emilia Romagna GP, Anthony Davidson has labelled Daniel Ricciardo’s mistake “embarrassing”.

Racing for position on the opening lap, Ricciardo mounted the inside kerb at Tamburello and went sliding into Sainz’s Ferrari.

Both cars were off in the gravel but while the McLaren driver was able to rejoin the race in last place, Sainz was out of Ferrari’s first home race of the season.

Ricciardo was quick to apologise to the Spaniard and his Ferrari mechanics, heading to the team’s hospitality centre to say sorry.

Davidson, however, feels it is an incident that should never have happened in the first place.

“It’s a mistake that shouldn’t be happening at this kind of level and it’s a mistake that Carlos Sainz wasn’t expecting from someone usually as polished and as experienced as Daniel Ricciardo,” Foxsports quotes the the former driver turned Sky pundit as having said.

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“To end a Ferrari driver’s race on lap 1, I’d be making a quick exit if I was him.

“I can tell by his body language he was embarrassed. It’s good that he went and apologised to Carlos. It shouldn’t be happening.”

Nico Rosberg was a fair bit kinder calling it a racing incident although one that Ricciardo was responsible for.

“It’s okay,” said the 2016 World Champion. “Nevertheless I did see Daniel do a little bit of a snap mid-corner, so pushing a little bit too much and it was him who