Having switched teams over the winter, the Australian is among the drivers playing catch up to try and get fully comfortable with their new cars heading into the third round of the 2021 F1 season after just one-and-a-half days of pre-season testing. Ricciardo was convincingly outperformed by McLaren teammate Lando Norris in Bahrain and Imola but appeared to make some progress during Friday practice for this weekend’s Portuguese Grand Prix as he ended FP2 in P8 and within six-tenths of Lewis Hamilton’s benchmark. “It was a better day personally for me,” Ricciardo told Sky Sports after second practice. “I just felt like I got on with it from the start of FP1. I think the feeling,...
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