Ricciardo unperturbed by Marko comment

Daniel Ricciardo insists that he does not must take heed to feedback from Helmut Marko as a way to know that he wants to lift his recreation.

When less than his elbows within the Horner saga, Helmut Marko has discovered the time to fireplace a warning shot throughout Daniel Ricciardo’s bow, the Austrian warning, within the wake of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, that the Australian “has to give you one thing quickly”.

With a well-earned popularity as Purple Bull’s Lord Excessive Executioner, few would regard the risk as empty, for Marko has historical past, as any variety of drivers can attest.

Nonetheless, talking to the media forward of his dwelling race, Ricciardo insists that being his personal fiercest critic he doen’t require additional enter from the likes of Marko.

“No, it isn’t annoying,” he replied, when requested if he discovered the feedback annoying, particularly by way of coming days earlier than his dwelling race. “I feel there’s all the time, as an enormous a part of our job… Crucial half is the driving, however an enormous a part of it’s speaking to you guys and clearly listening to when issues go nicely, clearly everybody’s speaking positively and once they do not, they do not discuss so positively. In order that’s a part of it.

“I feel additionally the extra I get into the game, the extra I simply know that I am again right here as a result of I consider I can do it,” he continued. “I consider I belong right here, and it is actually that.

“When folks say, do you may have a degree to show or something, or do that you must maintain folks glad or please anybody, I am right here for myself. It is actually that, as a result of I do know I can nonetheless do it. I do wish to make folks proud, the folks that help me.

“If somebody says one thing, I do know it already, as a result of I’ve advised myself that, or I do know what’s anticipated from me. In order that’s that. After all, I wish to be qualifying Q3. I wish to get these outcomes that I consider I can.

“But it surely’s tight. We’re in such a decent midfield. And like Bahrain in quali, I knew I did not put the lap collectively I ought to have. And I put my hand up for that. And that is the distinction. That is the distinction from possibly P14 to a Q3. I feel finish of Q1 in Saudi from P9 to P16 was lower than a tenth. So you possibly can in a short time appear like a hero or not. And that is the place each tenth counts. And that is the place clearly I look to myself first.”

With the primary indicators showing that Ricciardo could possibly be below strain to retain his RB seat, the dream return to Purple Bull appears a great distance off, however the Australian insists that he was by no means that focussed on a return within the first place.

“I do not purchase into any of the tales, if you’ll,” he stated. “I do know, clearly, what my place is within the workforce. I do know, to illustrate, some potential issues that would occur if I do rather well. However that is all simply… It is like every little thing you recognize.

“I feel any workforce you are with, you recognize in case you have a very sturdy season it might result in possibly one thing totally different or enhance your place the place you at present are. I feel it is all the time our goal to do the perfect we will. And I feel no matter occurs will occur or can occur.

“However for us, my goal is to drive this automobile nearly as good as I can. I feel now getting again right into a automobile I am undoubtedly not wanting too far forward. So am I interested by the Purple Bull seat that you just converse of? No. I do know if I do some actually good outcomes, possibly then that may current itself probably. It is not one thing I take into consideration as a result of, yeah, as you stated, 12 months in the past, I wasn’t on this place. I did not know if I’d be again on this place. So I feel I simply take it weekend after weekend.

“There’ll all the time be some, yeah, no matter going round. However I do know my job and what I must do. And I feel the extra I get… Look, it is via expertise as nicely. However the extra you get caught up in that stuff, then that begins taking focus away from my job and that is driving as quick as potential.

“I do know we do a variety of different issues in the course of the course of a race weekend however that is why we’re right here in the end, to push the automobile to the restrict and attempt to make it nearly as good as it may be. So this weekend it is one thing I sit up for clearly being right here racing at dwelling, however yeah, as you stated, after the primary two races it hasn’t been wonderful. but it surely’s not a priority I feel it is two races out of 24 and there is a variety of new folks within the workforce. So it’s totally early, however I do undoubtedly wish to have a robust weekend and yeah, do nicely.”

Requested concerning the coming weekend, and likewise a declare by the workforce that it discovered a problem after qualifying, Ricciardo stated: “Yeah, we discovered some inconsistencies throughout automobiles. And that, I feel, was clearly… As I touched on earlier, when it is so tight, you recognize, particularly in our place, you want every little thing to clearly try to be there. In order that was that. After which within the race, you recognize, early within the Security Automotive interval, we had a sluggish cease. So then it put us on the again and yeah, just about in a DRS practice after that. So you then’re out of place and that form of made it a really lengthy and difficult weekend.

“So forward of this weekend, I feel every little thing’s been addressed. I have been talking with the workforce rather a lot. I used to be again within the sim as nicely after Saudi and earlier than heading dwelling. So yeah, I really feel like we have completed every little thing we will to return right here with our greatest shot and I am very, very glad that we’re most likely 24 hours away from getting within the automobile.”

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