Getting back into a front-running Red Bull car is “the dream” for Daniel Ricciardo. The AlphaTauri move is just the first step. LukeSmithF1 on Ricciardo’s new mindset:
at Red Bull’s sister team — and put him on what he sees as a path to racing again for the team at the top of the standings. And it starts where Ricciardo first made his name as an F1 driver, when AlphaTauri was known as Toro Rosso.While Thursday was Ricciardo’s official ‘return’, it’s like he’s never been away. He missed just 10 races — less than half a season — and was in the paddock for much of that time as part of his Red Bull role.
“I felt really good in the car and it went well,” said Ricciardo. “It was pretty much, you look ready, let’s do it.” Marko informed de Vries he’d been dropped, and the news went public before the test had even finished.In April, Ricciardo made clear he was not interested in returning to F1 simply to make up the numbers. He wanted a team that would allow him to fight up the order and return to the kind of heyday that saw him battle for poles and notch eight victories.
It is also not an especially easy car to drive, an issue that caused Ricciardo to struggle at McLaren, knocking his confidence. But he learned from that experience, and said he’s avoiding any preconceptions about how good or bad the car may be, or how it compares to“I’m not really thinking, ‘I know the car will have limitations’,” Ricciardo said. “I’m sure it’s not going to feel as good as the car I drove a week ago, but I’ll just work with that. I drove it on the sim and it felt OK.
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