Ricciardo Daniel is one of the Australian Formula 1 drivers, he is specifically famous for his overtaking abilities and his smile. He has raced for some of the best teams and won Grand Prix with one of those Red Bull Racing and McLaren. Ricciardo is quite talented, charming and also a hardworking individual with love for this career.
This has provided the main thrust which the team could convince the top five teams of the fact that RB would leverage increased technical links with Red Bull.
However, initial visions of VCARB 01 to look like Red Bull RB19 car which was the world champion car was quickly dispelled, and RB had relatively slow start of the season.
“Ricciardo and Tsunoda ponder RB’s rising aspirations”
Nevertheless, the Faenza-based team has become an habitual points getter, updates in Miami concluded, with the help of the Ricciardo finishing fourth in the Sprint and Tsunoda finishing seventh in the race. RB took that momentum into last weekend with both cars starting inside the top 10 in Imola, but they made poor starts and gained only a single point. However, Ferrari’s one-stop strategy to split Mercedes and a stellar recovery from 13th to P5, though one-lap trickery on soft tires overtook Aston Martins, helped Ricciardo to look for the silver lining in RB’s disappointment with Tsunoda’s P10 finish.
In the post-race briefing, session Laurent [Mekies, team boss] said the team was dissatisfied with the outcome, although it managed to earn a point, ricciardo explained, filling out RB’s dynamic ambitions of gain.
We defeated our closest competitors and still managed to gain a point, which was helpful for all the team members and helpful for myself, too, at least to some extent; nonetheless, it was a bit upsetting that I did not secure those points for the team.
After the spirits surged which signaled that we can be part of this team, and this result can be an indication of something much more meaningful for the Shelby PDOException team in the future.
Forcing his luck at the start of the race, both Ricciardo and Tsunoda complained of issues which negatively impacted their race at Imola, making necessary premature pit stops that exposed them to a disadvantageous position. Ricciardo revealed that since then, the Italian team has taken its time to work through all the offending issues within the company departments.
Lately, we have most focused on our starts,” Ricciardo said. That’s why we are paying a lot of attention to simulating tire management, team clutch and all the other typical procedures. We usually prepare, but now we are preparing even more because some teams always start better than us, so there is something they do that we are missing, and we need to figure it out.
When you’re lacking in an area, you often need to challenge yourself. Are we open-minded enough? Are we stuck in our ways or processes? We’re constantly challenging each other, and with quick turnarounds, that’s what we’re aiming to improve.