Daniel Ricciardo has high hopes for Red Bull’s British Grand Prix prospects, with the Australian predicting they’ll be fighting with Williams for best of the rest behind Ferrari and Mercedes.
The Renault-powered team will introduce another upgrade package at Silverstone, which it hopes will significantly close the gap to those ahead, though Ricciardo admits the two leading teams remain out of touch.
“Looking at the [test] times isn’t really relevant for us; we weren’t pushing for qualifying runs, but looking at the work we did it was a good day,” he said of his eighth quickest time on Wednesday.
The 25-year-old explained that the team instead focussed on trying to find new set-up paths for the British GP in a weeks time to ensure it can secure the best result possible.
“We made some more extreme set-up changes that we wouldn’t normally do in a race weekend, to explore the limits of the car and try to extract some more potential out of the car.
“We know our weaknesses here with the long straights, but there are a few more corners at Silverstone, which suits our car better, and we have some aerodynamic updates that will help us,” he added.
“I don’t think we’ll be able to fight with Mercedes or Ferrari yet but hopefully we can be close to Williams.”
