On Friday, Ricciardo supplied the newest indication he’s beginning to flip the nook after a tricky 2024 season begin.
Ricciardo’s extra promising tempo in China was left unrewarded after a conflict with Lance Stroll, however in Miami dash qualifying the Australian took a shocking fourth beginning place for Saturday morning’s 19-lap contest.
He completed 4 tenths off polesitter Max Verstappen within the Pink Bull, revealing he made contact with the wall on his SQ2 and SQ3 laps.
“I really feel actually good about it,” Ricciardo informed F1.com. “I am pleased with the second row, it is superior. On the primary lap of SQ1 I made a mistake, so we have been placing ourselves beneath a little bit of stress, however we constructed up from there.
“Max was stunned to be P1 along with his lap and I used to be stunned to be P4 with mine. I anticipated extra from the tender, however it did not give rather more than the medium.
“We have been anticipating everybody to go rather a lot faster they usually did not. I touched the wall each laps as nicely, so I informed the staff I used to be undoubtedly making an attempt to get all the things out of it.
“I do not know if that made me faster or not, however we have been going for it and I had some good confidence within the automobile.”
Daniel Ricciardo, RB F1 Crew VCARB 01
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Ricciardo remains to be chasing his first factors of the marketing campaign and hopes he can convert his fourth beginning place right into a stable haul, with the highest eight incomes factors within the dash.
“I would like to be greater than eighth for certain, I would like to get just a few factors from it,” he stated.
“We’ll see what occurs. I skilled it in Mexico, beginning on the entrance is only a lot nicer than beginning in twelfth or thirteenth.
“[Compared to] being concerned in a little bit of chaos on Lap 1, staying a bit cleaner on the entrance is sort of a breath of recent air.”
Crew-mate Yuki Tsunoda was eradicated in fifteenth place in SQ2 after struggling to place a clear sufficient lap collectively.
“The tempo was good in SQ1, so the automobile was there,” Tsunoda stated.
“We did not maximise it and I in all probability did not put all of it collectively both. I feel doing two push laps would have been higher for us, that is the primary situation.”