Australian Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo will join his teammate, Max Verstappen, on the third row of the grid, the best that the Milton Keynes based squad could have realistically hoped for and while they are not on the front row of the grid for today's Spanish Grand Prix , they are happy that the new upgrade package has helped them to close the gap to the cars ahead.
Now the hope is that they can make good use of the third row for the start of this afternoon's race and build further on the progress they've made so far this weekend.
"Even with the upgrades we didn't expect to come here and get pole today and I'm still about a second off the leaders in qualifying, but Max was a bit closer which is good for the team,” Daniel said. “Personally I was struggling in the last sector, especially at the last two corners. I just wasn't able to carry enough speed through the chicane which is where I lost most of the time. For the rest of the lap I felt we did all we could and now we have a pretty good balance in the high speed corners.”
"There is more potential in the car which we need to unlock but we have definitely found something this weekend and the gap to the leaders looks to be closing a bit. In the race it would be nice to get on terms with Ferrari and Mercedes but I think the main battle will be between Max and myself. Maybe we will even look at trying something different and splitting the strategy across both cars to put a bit of pressure on the top two teams. It should be an interesting race."
