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Christian Horner: It was like Ricciardo was in Apollo 13

Christian Horner has compared Daniel Ricciardo's drive to victory at the Monaco Grand Prix to the most infamous voyage of NASA's moon landing programme.

Ricciardo managed to win in Monaco despite losing what Horner himself estimated to be around 25 percent of his engine power in the early stages of the race. The Australian's car was forced into severe power unit management from around lap 19 of 78 when the energy recovery system problem was detected.

Immediately after the issue started, a series of frantic radio message were played over the F1 broadcast as the Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel closed in on the leading Red Bull.