Daniel Ricciardo insists he has moved on from his Monaco heartbreak after he failed to win a race which should quite easily have been his to win, following a Red Bull pit stop blunder.
The Australian told his team to "save it" when they went to apologise over team radio as Ricciardo crossed the finish line in second, adding "Nothing you could say can make that any better."
Following that and a strategy which potentially cost him victory in Spain, Ricciardo said he was unsure "where to go from here", but in Canada, Ricciardo revealed the episode was now in the past, admitting mistakes happen but it's harder to accept when it happens twice in two races.
"Yeah, I gave it a few days to cool off [before speaking to the team]," he said on Thursday. "I definitely felt after the race that I wasn’t in a place, probably no one was in a place to try to resolve what happened.
"For me it's better to just get away for a few days and then address what happened once we’d cooled and settled," he explained. "So I spoke to various people in the team and they basically explained what happened at the time and the situation.
"It was obviously important to hear the explanation but I think more important how to move on from it and how to make sure it doesn’t happen again."
Ricciardo says it's now crucial he enjoys a "perfect weekend" in Canada to restore his confidence in the team.
"For sure, for a few days I was upset I guess, and obviously ruing some missed opportunities – but it’s one of those things: it happens; it’s unfortunate it happened back-to-back. That, how do I say, expanded the feelings and the emotion a lot more.
"But yeah, I’ve moved on. I’ve still obviously got a lot of faith in the team and I don’t doubt things with them moving forwards. For me it’s obviously really important this weekend to execute a perfect weekend from my side and from the team’s side and get back on track."
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