According to the team’s plans, Daniel Ricciardo piloted the VCARB01 on Friday in the first half of the day, and as the pause in the races due to repair work on the track dragged on, he summarized the preliminary results of the tests in an interview with the official championship website.
Daniel Ricciardo: “I only have half a day behind the wheel and I want to use this time as efficiently as possible. I can say that so far everything is going well, yesterday afternoon I did a lot of laps and today we will do long series of laps – I hope we can achieve everything that is planned.
Physical fitness is also not bad – when I got behind the wheel again last year in the middle of the season, it was more difficult in this regard. After that I didn’t race for about seven months, and when I entered the first fast corners after such a long break, I felt my neck, it was terrible! But now my form is definitely much better, although it still feels like I haven’t driven a race car for a few months.
Let’s say the sensations are a little more painful than during the race weekend, when you are already in the desired rhythm, but still I feel very normal.
Yesterday we mainly experimented with the settings, and now we continue to study the new car. In general, we can say that some settings were effective, others did not work, and this afternoon I will be replaced by Yuki Tsunoda. The evening session is the most important, because both qualifying and the race will take place under these conditions next week.
Let’s hope the team can check some more things this afternoon and get a more accurate picture of the car’s capabilities.”
Source: F1 News
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