Ricciardo explains season highlight as something "no one would expect"

The Aussie joined Renault from Aston Martin Red Bull Racing for the 2019 season, as his team slipped below McLaren in the constructors' championship.

"I won't say the obvious ones, because the results say at Monza, Canada," Ricciardo told Motorsport.com. "Everyone will look at me like 'Spa, what happened? You were nowhere!'.

"But it was a race where, probably the circumstances of that day as well [Anthoine Hubert's fatal Formula 2 crash the previous day] and I got hit in Turn 1 and we had a lot of floor damage.

"To be honest, the car was quite scary to drive after that. We had a lot less downforce. I was probably flat through Eau Rouge less than half a dozen times the whole race.

"So that gives you probably an idea of how scary it was through there."