Daniel Ricciardo qualified for today’s F1 Bahrain Grand Prix in 14th, ending the early optimism surrounding his RB tജeam.

RB have come under the microscope of rival teamꦕs for their close association to Red Bull but, while Max Verstappen took pole position, Yuki Tsunoda only claimed P11 and Ricciardo is three places fur𝐆ther back.

“I was disappointed in my position slash pe𓆉rformance,” Ricciardo said afterwards.

“I didn’t drive shit or anythin🎀g. But I never really crossed the line being li♕ke ‘Yeah, I did a clear lap!’

“I always knew I could make time at Turn 1, or Turn 4. There were al🐼ways some parts on the track where I knew there was lap time.

“But I never really was able to put it together.

“Even if I improved a little bit then I’d probably lose a bit in the next corner, so it see-sawed a bit. I was never♛ progressively gainin🍌g.

“So I felt like, from that point of view, I wasn’t that happy wi🤡th my session.

“In terms of team performance🐭, this is where we thought.

“I feel like there’s a b💎it more time on the table.

“But, taking Yu🍷ki in♍ 11th, we felt like, if we do like a great lap, Q3 is possible but, otherwise, we’re probably around that top 12 area.

“Every session we make some subtle changes. So we’re still trying to chase th💛e car a little bit, but nothing crazy.

“I would say in qua𝔍li when, probably in the conditions where everything is normally the best, I’ve probably ꦜstruggled a bit more than I have in other sessions.

“When you push the car to the limit, you kind of expose a few other things🎃 and maybe I wasn’t as proactive wꦗith that in reading the conditions in the car.

“I just struggled to put the lap together. I felt like, if I pushed really hard in one corner, then I⛄ would probably mess up the next corner.

“So I felt like it was a🌟 little bit tricky to just consistently improve in every corner. I felt like ‘you gain a bit here, lose a bit there꧋’.

“So it was a bit of a struggle.

“✅Turn 1, I missed the apex quite a few tim🐲es, just not getting the front in.

“But e🌳ve♒ry lap was ‘Oh yeah, I know where that is’.

“You know to brake and𒉰 turn a little bit earlier, but I would still be looking past the apex when I got there and being l♌ike ‘f**k!’

“I just missed it a little bit, maybe some setup or feeling with tyres. 
“But I would expect myself to be able to find that in a few runs 💧in quali.”