Daniel Ricciardo is willing to accept he is not performing at the same level as his McLaren team-mate Lando Norris…for now. With pre-season testing for 2021 slashed to only three days, it was always going to be difficult for the drivers switching teams to find early form. And that has certainly been the case for Ricciardo, who at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix was comfortably lagging behind Norris. The qualifying times did not reflect the true narrative of Q3. Ricciardo outqualified Norris, but until track limits intervened to delete his time the Briton was set to make the second row of the grid. Come race day, Ricciardo was then told by McLaren to let Norris through as he claimed on...
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