Ricciardo now understands the ‘Seb’ spin

Daniel Ricciardo now understand what causes the Vettel, known as "Seb Spins'

Daniel Ricciardo described his mistake that cost him a points finish in the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at Silverstone as a “Seb spin", given the similarity to the spate of such incidents his former Formula 1 team-mate Sebastian Vettel has suffered.

Ricciardo said he spoke to Vettel in the media pen after the race about it, as it’s the first time Ricciardo’s experienced the loss of downforce the Ferrari driver has struggled with in such situations

“Unfortunately, the last few years it’s a bit of a ‘Seb spin’ when you’re the inside car, then as soon as you get on the throttle you lose it," said Ricciardo when asked by The Race about his spin.

“He did it with me in Austin in 2018. It’s one I don’t think I’d experienced yet.

“I could see Carlos and you’re trying to squeeze a bit but not have contact, and then as soon as I opened the wheel and then got on throttle it just went around.

“When you are in such close vicinity to another car on that side angle, you lose a chunk of downforce that’s normally coming in from that side and keeping the car down, so I think it’s just a very quick loss of downforce and it can obviously catch you out.

“It was a bit of salt in the wounds. By that point we were already on the back foot, I don’t want to say it was over but then with that I just wanted to roll over a bit and just put my head down! Not a fun afternoon in the end."