Daniel Ricciardo critical of Renault: "Today wasn’t good enough"
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Daniel Ricciardo was disappointed with the one-lap performance of his Renault during Friday's practice sessions. He will hope that they can fix this in their bid to reach Q3 on Saturday and ultimately finish in the points on Sunday.
"I think the one lap performance today wasn’t good enough," said Ricciardo to F1i.com."The long runs were more competitive, and I think [our rivals] looked relatively quite a lot stronger in the short runs."
"The first run this morning actually, I felt pretty good with the car, and I felt like the updates worked quite well," he added."Then we hit a little bit of stalemate I guess and we didn’t really progress that much more through the day.
"I think we’ve got to go back and see what we change from the first run, and take a few steps back and figure it out.
"I certainly felt some positives today, even though the end result doesn’t look like that.
"The car is certainly better in areas. We’ve just got to make sure we put it together on one lap in particular tomorrow. That’s where we struggled today with the qualifying type of sim."
Renault have said that they have pressed the reset button going into this weekend and they will hope that this works and they can get back to the top of the midfield.