Daniel Ricciardo put in a storming lap in Q3 to position himself third on tomorrow’s German GP and best of the rest behind the dominate Mercedes drivers.<\/p>\n
By his own admittance, the Australian’s lap was the best he could produce and while it wasn’t close enough to challenge for pole, Ricciardo was happy with his performance.<\/p>\n
“I think we got pretty close to be honest,” said the Red Bull driver.<\/p>\n
“My first lap in Q3 was really good and I knew there probably wasn\u2019t that much more on the table with my second run.<\/p>\n
“In the end a couple of mistakes so maybe a tenth with the perfect lap but not enough to challenge the pole. We\u2019re close enough, I said yesterday if we can be within half a second that\u2019s not a bad day in qualifying.”<\/p>\n
Obviously, Ricciardo will be hoping to mix it with the Mercedes in tomorrow’s race, if not on sheer speed than perhaps on tyre strategy.<\/p>\n
“Hopefully we can do something tomorrow and from what I understand we might have different tyres available to us for the race so hopefully that makes a difference.”<\/p>\n
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