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Wet qualifying leaves Ricciardo stuck on high downforce
Daniel Ricciardo has revealed that today's rain-hit qualifying session has left him on the backfoot going into the French Grand Prix. As a result of the inclement conditions, Ricciardo's plans to switch to a lower downforce set-up this morning had to be aborted. That could leave him something of a sitting duck at the Circuit Paul Ricard on Sunday. "We split the cars yesterday on the downforce levels, with Max lower than me," Ricciardo explained after qualifying. "It was pretty evenly matched yesterday, but it looked like the low was worth trying. "We put that on for this morning, but with the weather we didn’t get to try it," he added after FP3 was largely...
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