(Frederic Le Floc'h DPPI for Renault Sport F1)
Daniel Ricciardo was in action for Infiniti Red Bull Racing as the first day of the post British Grand Prix in season test in Silverstone today. Fresh from claiming his four podium finish of the season following a third place finish behind race winner Mercedes Lewis Hamilton and the Williams Martini Racing's Valtteri Bottas.
The Australian completed 72 laps over the course of the team's test programme ending the day in second place behind pace setter Williams Martini Racing's Felipe Massa. Ricciardo's fastest time, a 1m 35.246s was just 0.006s slower then Massa. Speaking following today's test the Australian said:
'It was a successful day, pretty productive, We got a lot more done than we thought because the rain we were expecting didn’t show up. A lot of what we were doing was for the engineers and aerodynamicists to look over back at the factory, and we’ve given them plenty of data to go on.'
Red Bull will spend the second day of the test on Wednesday working with Pirelli. The teams Engineering Co-ordinator, Andy Damerum commented:
'Today we were looking at the long term,” he said. “We will of course be testing on Fridays at grand prix meetings but there are certain things we can’t do there. We’ve gathered a wealth of information today, which will help us to map the way forward for the second half of the season.'
Damerum went on to say:
'Our start today was a little delayed as we had some sensor glitches, which meant we were out about half-an-hour late – but we made up the time and were happy with the 72 laps that we completed. We gathered some good data that will help us as we move forward in the coming weeks.'
Reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel will take over the RB10 for the tomorrow's Pirelli test.
© Ben Johnston 2014
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