Daniel Ricciardo has said Red Bull is ‘chipping away’ and while still a bit behind, he is confident the squad will be closer to the pace in China later this month.

Ricciardo, who took a superb fourth in Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix, returned to the cockpit of the RB10 on Tuesday as the first in-season test of the year got underway at the Sakhir Circuit and despite a few minor issues, he did 91 laps in total, ending the day seventh quickest – his best a 1:38.326, 2.5 seconds off the top time.

“We didn’t get in any performance runs today,” he explained, “but we did some good long runs in the afternoon with three set-up changes and we got some good feedback from that.”

“We missed a little bit of time this morning but we made up for it in the afternoon. I think I was in the car for a good few hours,” he continued.

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