Jacques Villeneuve has hit again in his new discovered confrontation with Daniel Ricciardo.
The 1997 Components 1 world champion ignited the feud when he questioned the Australian’s place on the grid.
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His explosive remarks caught the F1 world off guard and appeared to mild a fireplace beneath Ricciardo forward of qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix.
After producing a masterclass and snatching fifth place on the grid, Ricciardo hit again with a savage reply.
“I heard he’s been speaking s**t. However he at all times does,” Ricciardo mentioned in response to Villeneuve’s feedback.
“I feel he’s hit his head a number of too many instances. So I don’t know if he performs ice hockey or one thing.”
These feedback nevertheless didn’t sit nicely with Villeneuve who slammed Ricciardo for crossing the road.
“His response was a bit bit private and he’s a task mannequin,” he mentioned.
“Like all these 20 (drivers), you’re on the prime degree, it’s a must to be accountable in your solutions, skilled.
“Children are listening to you. You can not make it private.
“I’m blissful to have realized that I knocked myself out too typically enjoying ice hockey. However in the end you’re going to get criticism, you want a thick pores and skin and I obtained beneath his pores and skin nevertheless it obtained higher for his driving. Nevertheless it’s not sufficient, he must do extra of this.
“The stress is on him. Quite a lot of stress was placed on his shoulders, and it labored out. He’s had one good dash race in Miami, one good qualifying, that’s not sufficient for a full season, he wants extra of that.”
Requested if he was standing by his feedback, Villeneuve responded: “Sure. He was fast, however you’re solely pretty much as good as your previous few outcomes.
“We want the identical factor for the following few race weekends.”
Villeneuve wasn’t the one individual to query Ricciardo’s place on the grid with fellow Sky Sports activities presenter Danica Patrick stating the Aussie is beneath heavy stress.
“He’s at a really difficult level in his profession, falling down from nice groups and spending time exterior of the automobile throughout seasons and having accidents,” mentioned Patrick.
“He even mentioned the opposite day, I’m not 20 years outdated with the identical focus, I’ve to be very targeted on what it’s that you just wish to do and there are different issues that may take away from it so to be actually, actually buckled down on that.
“I feel which you can see it, you possibly can actually see it this weekend. I really feel Yuki clearly re-signing might be a bit bit painful.”
Ricciardo endured a nightmare begin to the race when he was hit with a 5 second penalty for a false begin.
As soon as the race obtained underway he tumbled down the order to ninth earlier than he served his penalty and in the end fell all the way down to twelfth spot.
Within the closing phases of the race nevertheless the Aussie fought again earlier than crossing the road in eighth and securing 4 factors.
Max Verstappen claimed the honours forward of Lando Norris and George Russell in a rain soaked race.
