After the first practice session was hit with rain, the second session was more representative of Ricciardo’s pace relative to teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda.

Ricciardo was 14th fastest in FP2, just over 0.4s off Tsunoda’s best time which put him an impressive fourth in the tim༒eshee🦋ts.

This weekend ma𓆏rk💦s Ricciardo’s first F1 race since the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in November 2022.

Speaking to the media aft🐬er practice on Friday, he said: “I felt comfortable quite quickly today, but comfortable is 95%. The last few percent, look, right now, I feel I can find that tomorrow. At least get close to it. 

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“Today, I didn’t quite put the lap together, but I started to feel the limit๊ of the car. Just keep it clean tomorrow, and I feel like I’ll be pretty content.”

Ricciardo admitted he needs to find more time on the ♌soft tyre after he was able to match Tsun🅰oda initially on the mediums.

“Look, positions, it’s probably not too rel🍌evant at the moment,” he added. “I think it was just more for me today to feel basically where I am with the car. It all felt pretty familiar. Obviously there’s a lot of outside attention, but once I put the helmet on and got in the car, it felt, in a way, like I never really left, so that was nice. 

“And obviousl𝔉y this morning, we didn’t really get 🌠anything. But this afternoon, I think yeah, just a little bit on the new tire, but nothing really I’m concerned about. The car felt OK. Yeah, to be honest, doesn’t feel too bad. A bit of work tonight, but nothing crazy.

“Look, a bit more out of me, and for sure there’s some things alread🎉y I feel in the car that we can try and work on. Right now, I’m quite optimistic. It looked like Yuki as well had a pretty good day. I think if we put all these things together, maybe tomorrow we can do OK.”