4/20/2023 0 Comments F1 2017 predictionsEverything’s got to be put together but if we have a solid winter, we can come out in Melbourne and start to put the pressure on.” “Let’s see what happens but 2017 will hopefully it will be a year we can fight for. “I know if you ask Red Bull they’ll say that, and I honestly believe they think that as well. ![]() “But I’ve been in this sport a few years and Max for his inexperience, he’s quite a mature driver, so I honestly believe we’ve got the strongest line-up on the grid. “Mercedes have the more experienced line-up,” he says. ![]() When asked by CNN whether Red Bull now has the strongest driver pairing in F1, Ricciardo is diplomatic but not demurring. It's just Daniel and Max □□□ #MexicoGP #DiaDeMuertos /bz4sM76F43- Oracle Red Bull Racing October 27, 2016 ![]() “Myself and Max are capable of doing it and I know the team believes in us.” “I’m hopeful we can be closer, when I say closer, I mean close enough to fight for the title,” agrees Ricciardo. There is, importantly, also more focus on aerodynamic performance, which means Red Bull can call upon the talents of a man in a class of his own in that field, its chief technical officer Adrian Newey.į1 experts are predicting Red Bull could come out of the blocks quickly and mount a real challenge to Mercedes. Next season’s rule changes will see wider and faster cars and meatier tires. The UK-based team has won three straights constructors’ titles and Rosberg and Hamilton are now dueling alone for the 2016 drivers’ title. Mercedes has dominated F1 since the last slew of regulation changes, which focused on engine technology, were introduced in 2014. Ricciardo is a glass-half-full kind of guy but there is genuine cause to be optimistic about what lies in store in 2017.į1 is embracing more technical rule changes that could shake up the pecking order. That one’s not going to get away from me again.” I had success there in the junior formulas and it’s always a track where you can sort of puff your chest out a little bit, you feel like the driver does a little bit more there. “I got the first pole of my career in Monaco and if it wasn’t for what happened with the pit stop it would have easily been the best weekend of my career. “When I look back on Monaco it’s hard, but easier to deal with when it’s out of your control. “Then he goes and wins and it became a crazy weekend. “Spain was weird because Max just came to the team and that was creating a lot of news, period,” Ricciardo recalls. More misfortune followed for Ricciardo at the next race in Monaco when a slow pit stop denied him another certain win. The 18-year-old Verstappen stormed into F1 history as its youngest winner, benefiting from a strategy error on the other side of the Red Bull garage to sensationally win the Spanish Grand Prix. In May, teenage talent Max Verstappen became Ricciardo’s new Red Bull teammate when he was surprisingly promoted from sister team Toro Rosso at the expense of Daniil Kvyat. Red Bull give rare access to its F1 simulator There was massive satisfaction, for sure.” “I was thinking about the last win more than two years ago and how foreign that feeling felt as well as a lot of other things. ![]() “It was a physical race so all of us were exhausted and that built on the emotion as well. “A lot of things were running through my head on the podium,” the 27-year-old, who won his first three races in 2014, explains. READ: Red Bull one-two as Hamilton retires The Australian orchestrated exuberant celebrations on the podium as the main protagonists quaffed champagne from his race boot, now another unmistakeable Ricciardo trademark. The elusive win finally came last month at a sizzling Malaysia Grand Prix when Lewis Hamilton dramatically retired with smoke pouring from his Mercedes engine and Ricciardo inherited the race lead. “But it felt unjust to me that I was driving at this level and not getting a victory for it.” I felt I was driving around problems a bit better than I used to and that’s something you can keep getting better at. “The confidence and belief was there from the start. “This year has personally been my best season,” Ricciardo told CNN’s The Circuit in the build-up to Sunday’s race in Mexico. Daniel Ricciardo took part in a Day of the Dead event on the eve of the Mexican Grand Prix Lars Baron/Getty Images North America/Getty Images
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