Daniel Ricciardo has conceded RB nonetheless has to work on discovering an answer to its Formulation 1 automotive’s weaknesses regardless of including upgrades on the Belgian Grand Prix weekend.
The Australian has rediscovered his kind in latest outings, selecting up three factors finishes within the final six races after initially struggling to match team-mate Yuki Tsunoda.
His struggles early within the season led to options that he might be changed on the staff, with Liam Lawson ready on the sidelines following his spectacular cameo final season, however Ricciardo’s enchancment additionally put him within the body to take over from Sergio Perez at Pink Bull.
Neither scenario has played out after Red Bull’s summer break review and Ricciardo has remained centered on his job in hand, which ended earlier than the break with an eleventh place end at Spa.
This turned a points-paying place when Mercedes’ George Russell was disqualified from the race for an underweight automotive.
It was a reward for RB, which added updates to the automotive for the weekend because it goals to shut the hole to the entrance of the midfield battle, persevering with a four-race scoring streak between its two drivers to consolidate sixth spot within the constructors’ desk.
However addressing the adjustments made to the equipment, Ricciardo steered work nonetheless must be carried out with inherent points nonetheless persisting.
“I nonetheless really feel like our strengths are in just a little bit extra the decrease velocity stuff and our weaknesses are a bit extra in the true fast stuff,” he defined.
Daniel Ricciardo, RB F1 Group
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“I feel actual excessive velocity we nonetheless started working on a bit, however all of the sort of tighter, twistier stuff we appear to be alright.
“So yeah, most likely similar traits, simply now load is our good friend so perhaps I am going to placed on some weight over the break, and that’ll assist.”
Talking earlier than Russell’s disqualification was introduced, Ricciardo admitted that “I did not actually know my place through the race” however believed he could be on for a shot at factors till Alpine’s Esteban Ocon caught and overtook him late on.
“I actually thought we might have ended up within the factors,” he stated.
“Once I had Ocon behind me, that is once I knew I used to be tenth and I used to be like, ‘Oh, I actually thought I used to be perhaps ninth’. ‘Cos I knew that holding him off was gonna be tough.
“He was sturdy all weekend. And likewise, he simply got here out on a more energizing tyre.
“I feel we had a extremely good race, I simply suppose another drivers additionally had a extremely good race.”
