WE WERE ON FOR A WIN
D
aniel Ricciardo believed
he had a chance to win
the Bahrain Grand Prix,
and early in the race he certainly
looked up for it but in the end, on
Pirelli soft tyres, his Red Bull lacked
the pace to match Ferrari and
Mercedes.
Indeed the team have looked
a lot closer to the pace setters in
Bahrain than they did in the first
two races.
Ricciardo reflected after the
race, “It was a race of two halves
really. At the beginning I genuinely
thought we had a chance to
win. That stint was looking very
competitive and I could see Valtteri
was struggling.”
“I was at the tail end of the front
pack and I could see everyone
else in front of me – they were
sliding and looked like they were
struggling more. It was easy for
me to stay there and I was looking
after my tyres, so at that point I was
thinking it could be on, not only for
a podium but for a win.”
“The safety car worked for me
in that we jumped up to third but
it wasn’t so good for our tyres and
that’s where we lost a lot of ground.
Even once we settled into a pace
and the chaos settled we fell back
and I was struggling with grip at the
front and rear. We never really got
that [soft] tyre working for us.”