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Red Bull to analyse pit stop error that cost Ricciardo

Red Bull will analyse why it had certain tyres in the wrong places which ultimately cost Daniel Ricciardo victory in the Monaco Grand Prix.

Ricciardo came in for a set of supersoft tyres having built up a comfortable margin over Lewis Hamilton on his in-lap, but the tyres were not ready for him and a delayed stop saw him drop to second place. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner explained the error was a result of the supersofts not being inside the garage before the stop, and he says an analysis will take place to ensure the same problem is not repeated.

"I’m not making excuses because there are none, obviously the tightness of the garages here it’s very tight to have extreme wets, intermediates and three different types of slicks for both cars in the garage at one time," Horner said.

"It’s a communication error that has happened at short notice, with 30 seconds notice, that on a normal working day would have been no issue at all."

Asked if Monaco is partially to blame, Horner replied: "Yes and no.

"It’s the same for all the teams, with the engineers sitting upstairs they don’t have sight of what tyres are in the garage. It’s the complexity of working here, but we need to understand and do a full analysis of how this happened so that it doesn’t happen again."

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