Daniel Ricciardo explains his approach to working with RB and understanding the pace discrepancy to his teammate Yuki Tsunoda. The 34-year-old is eager to reverse his uninspiring form to start the 2024 season.<\/p>\n
Despite being on home turf, the Australian GP<\/a> was a weekend to forget for Ricciardo. An invalidated lap in Q1 made points very unlikely on Sunday.\u00a0 Indeed, despite retirements from both Mercedes cars and Verstappen, the VCARB driver finished 13th.<\/p>\n By contrast, his young teammate scored the team’s first points of 2024 and crossed the line in P7. After the polemics from round one in Bahrain, a clearer image is emerging about how the Racing Bull duo stacks up.<\/p>\n Not only does this propel RB into 6th in the constructors, but it also gives Ricciardo<\/a> a points deficit to recover against his opposite number.<\/p>\n However, the 8-time race winner is not concerned that his problems stem from a fundamental lack of pace. Instead, he believes the VCARB 01 machine is not producing the lap times he expects.<\/p>\n