RB F1 Team seemed to be the team to watch at the start of this season, but the results many thought they could achieve didn’t come yet.
Daniel Ricciardo underlined how this hasn’t been the start of the season the team had hoped for, but he stays optimistic because the car is good and the RB F1 Team “can do a lot better”.
“The reason I’m staying optimistic is because I know that we had some things wrong, and with a good car and everything sorted, I know we can do a lot better.
“So a painful three days [in Saudi Arabia], but I don’t want it to take any confidence out of us. It hasn’t been the start to the year we wanted.”
The Aussie admitted that there are still things that need to be improved to achieve better results. He was also hard on himself after he spun in turn 1 during the Saudi Arabian GP.
“So we’re heading into the race always upbeat and optimistic that maybe something happens, but I think it was always going to be an uphill battle.
“We simply don’t have everything functioning at 100 percent. We see a few flaws with the car, we have got to get that fixed for the next one. I think the race itself, everyone pitted [under the safety car] and we had a really slow stop – I don’t know if they [the broadcast] showed it, it’s a slow one.
“Then we’re in that train and at the end, just to make sure, I made my mistake as well, I had a spin at turn one, so I didn’t want the team to feel left out. Just definitely a tricky one.”