RedBull In-Season Test Barcelona – See what happened on Day One at the in-season testing at Barcelona with Red Bull Driver Daniel Ricciardo.
Driver – Daniel Ricciardo
Car – Red Bull Racing – TAH Heur RB12
Laps – 89
Best Time – 1:24:307
Circuit Length – 4.655km
Fastest Lap – S. Vettel (1:23:220)
Two days after the brilliant Spanish Grand Prix where Max Verstappen made his debut and won for the team, the Red Bull Racing team were back in action today at the Circuit De Barcelona-Catalunya as the first in-season test for 2016 took place.
At the end of a busy day running, Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo worked his way through 89 laps of the Montmelo track, with the team setting about development work of the RB12 in coming races.
Red Bull Racing Driver – Daniel Ricciardo
Daniel Ricciardo said – “So far, we’re pretty happy with how things are looking. We’ll see what they find tonight but general it was all pretty reliable and everything ran as smoothly as it could have”
“We had a few new bits on the car that we tried, I guess there will have been some crazy images of stuff attached to the car this morning!”
“It’s not as exciting as a race weekend I can tell you, but we did have some good stuff today.”
Head of Race Engineering – Guillaume Rocquelin
“We qualified and raced here at the weekend so of us performance is not a concern at this test. We’re all about medium and long-term development of the car this week in Barcelona which is why there were no performance runs today, as well a pretty conservative choice of tyres – using what we used at the weekend.”
” As I say, it’s about development, not looking at the next event, so there was no temptation to bring out the ultrasoft tyres today. We had a good clean day though.“
More to come soon!
Thank you to Red Bull Racing for providing the details and interviews!
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Interview – RedBull Racing
Image – Sky Sports F1