Ricciardo chasing answers after struggling to get AlphaTauri F1 car to “bite”

Ricciardo’s second outing with AlphaTauri was a tough ask as he was thrown into a sprint weekend that was impacted by rain, and with only the FP1 session in which to hone the set-up.

He made his life more difficult by losing his best time in Q1 to a track limits offence at Eau Rouge, which consigned him to 19th on the grid for Sunday’s main race.

In Saturday’s sprint he was encouraged by a decent run to 10th place on a wet track.

In the dry…