Daniel Ricciardo has labelled two teams which are "strong favourites" for the Bahrain Grand Prix.
sees Red Bull and Ferrari as the “strong favourites to be on the podium” at the Bahrain Grand Prix this weekend.F1 teams were in action for three days of testing last week, with a rough pecking order emerging.
The general consensus, for Bahrain at least, is that Red Bull are likely to be F1’s dominant force, while Ferrari are in a good position to challenge. Giving his perspective on the pecking order, Ricciardo said: “I think from what me kind of being a viewer , it looks like Red Bull and Ferrari would be the strong favourites to be on the podium here in a week.Ricciardo’s own team - RB - is widely regarded to be the sixth-best team going into Bahrain.Alpine appear to have taken a significant step back, while under the AlphaTauri guise, they tended to have more pace than Williams, Sauber and Haas anyway.
“Then after that, it’s yeah, probably pretty close, but I would say we’re still in that midfield fight,” Ricciardo continued.“I think we’re probably where we expected to be. Obviously we do want to get stronger as the year goes on and establish ourselves at the front of the midfield, but I think now we’ll be hopefully a Q3 and top 10 car, but to be much more than that, I think that’s probably getting too excited.
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