Daniel Ricciardo admitted that the Visa RB team expected a higher pace during training in Barcelona, especially as a whole series of technical innovations had been prepared for this stage.
Daniel Rickardo (16th): “To summarize Friday, we can say that it was fun, because piloting is always interesting. At the same time, this was the first time I drove along this route with the updated last sector, and I like it better. The song definitely improved, it became more dynamic and I appreciated it.
On the other hand, we had some problems today. We hoped we would be more competitive. Of course, this is not yet a qualification and we will be working in the evening to sort everything out, but we have to admit that the results are a little worse than we expected.
When we talk about technical innovations, the modernized underside is the most important. When refining this generation’s machine, significant efforts are being focused specifically on this area. I think we still have some optimism, and if we do a detailed analysis in the evening, we will try to better understand the functioning of the soil and find the optimal approach to the settings.
I hope that on Saturday we will have more reasons to be in a good mood overall, but for now it seems to me that we still have something to work on.”
Source: F1 News
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