Daniel Ricciardo: I want to consistently fight at the front

At the presentation of the Visa RB team in Las Vegas, Daniel Ricciardo outlined his goals for next season. The Australian driver expects to regularly finish in the top five in 2024.

“Our car will be fast, but if it also looks great, then that’s good,” Racingnews365 quotes Daniel Ricciardo. – A lot is changing in the team now, but this is not just a phase of transformation. We are becoming more than just a Red Bull youth team and that is very important.

Last year’s race in Mexico City was my second after injury. The team previously had problems getting good results, so the results of that race gave us all hope for this year. Now I have more confidence in my abilities and I think many good things await us.

Of course it would be great to be on the podium again, but let’s put it this way: if I only have one podium in the season and finish tenth in all the other races, that’s not what I want. In this case I would prefer to have many fifth places without podiums. I want to fight consistently at the front, like I did in my second season at Renault in 2020, which people are already starting to forget.

That year I consistently finished in the top five or six and was on the podium several times. I want to get back to that level and perform consistently, week after week.

Last week I worked on the simulator for two days and then worked another day on Monday after the shooting day in Misano. It was great to be behind the wheel again, I missed it. People might think that at this stage of my career I don’t worry about things like that, but I actually enjoy everything. This feeling is important to me and gives me the motivation to give the best of myself.”

Source: F1 News

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