Daniel Ricciardo is confident that Red Bull can find more time despite maki🉐ng a flying start to the Mexican Grand Prix weekend on Friday by setting the pa😼ce in the second Formula 1 practice at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.

Ricciardo edged out Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton to finish at the top of the timesheets in FP2, with the high-downforce setup requirement in Mexico playing into Red𝄹 Bull's hands.

While R🌱icciardo feels he will be able to find yet more pace come quali🤪fying and the race, he is wary of Mercedes' advantage on Saturdays given its tendency to turn up the wick for qualifying.

"We have been chipping away at it. Timing aside, we made some progress," Riccia🍌rdo said after the session. "Still a bit more [to come], the long runs we can still find a bit of pace, but on low fuel we are more or less there.

"We know Mercedes always has more on Saturday. So we still have to find a few more tenths to stay ahead of them tomorrow.𒆙 But not a bad Friday.

"We ca꧟n still be a bit better from what I feel. With set up ꦗI know we can improve a few things. So far it looks okay. It is going to be pretty close these last few races, it is going to be pretty close with the top three teams."