Daniel Ricciardo feels Red Bull is “not 🍷looking too bad” over the long runs following Friday’s Formula 1 practice for the Chinese Grand Prix, but is less confident about the team’s pace on the Ultrasoft tyre.

Ricciardo finished fourth in FP1 before falling to ninth in second practice after failing to get in a qualifying simulation lap, with teammate Max Verstappen taking꧋ P5 in the after✅noon session.

While Ricciardo was happy with 🔥his pace on the Soft and Medium compound tyres, he 🅘was left wanting more from his shorter runs on the Ultrasoft compound.

“It was OK. I think on the pure performance runs with the Ultrasoft𓂃, we weren’t very good,” Ricciardo sai𓃲d.

"So we need to improve a little bit there with the set-up and just understand what we can do better. But with the Soft and the Medium we were more competi♐tive.

“The one-lap performance - if we do qualify Ultrasoft - we need to🍌 improve - but we’re not looking too bad.”

Ricciardo explained𒐪 how he was eager to get through practice and into the main running of the race weekend as Red Bull looks to recov🌼er from a sluggish start to the season that has yielded a finish no higher than P4.

“I get pretty bored o𒁃n Friday, it’s always the same thing. I just want to qualify now and race,” Ricciardo said. “Testing, practice, it’s whatever. Like you guys, it gets boring.

“It was O🅰K, the day, but let’s wait until qualifying, see how we go. We weren’t quick enough on one lap today with the Ultrasoft, but still we don’t really know where everyone is.

“We’ll improve a few 💧things and hopefully we’re there tomorro𝓡w, and more importantly on Sunday.”