Red Bull engineers were ‘quietly impressed’ with Daniel Ricciardo after his F1 tyre test at Silverstone. Image: XPB Images
Daniel Ricciardo left his engineer “quietly impressed” when he performed a Pirelli tyre test with Red Bull in the days following the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
That test has been credited as a key moment in Ricciardo’s F1 comeback after returning to Milton Keynes as third driver at the start of the year.
Immediately following that outing, Nyck de Vries was relieved of his duties at AlphaTauri, and Ricciardo confirmed as his replacement.
“You couldn’t really tell that he hadn’t been in a car for eight months,” said Simon Rennie, who was watching over the Silverstone test.
“The first run, or maybe on the first installation lap, you were reminded how quick the cars were, but after that, it was within a few laps…
“It was just like, well, it’s like you’d driven the car last week, not last year.
“That was quite…I don’t know…
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