Ricciardo delighted with yet another podium

  • Published on 09 Jul 2017 17:58
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  • By: Fergal Walsh

Daniel Ricciardo has expressed his happiness after his "awesome" run of consecutive podiums continued on Sunday with third at the Austrian Grand Prix - Red Bull's home race.

It is the Australian's fifth straight trip to the rostrum, achieved as a result of Ricciardo fending off the pressure from Lewis Hamilton's chasing Mercedes in the closing laps. Speaking during the podium interviews afterwards, Ricciardo said: "It was a fun race!

"We had some decisive moments at the start, then defending from Lewis in the last couple of laps, which got pretty close - let's just say I stuck to my braking points and where I thought the limit was. Five podiums in a row is awesome, but to get it here in Austria...Max got the home podium last year, and I was a bit envious, so it's nice to be up here this year."

Turning his attention to the scrap with Hamilton, he added: "I think the second to last lap was the tightest. He got the DRS, he got a good exit out of Turn 1, while mine wasn't good, so he got close, but it was nice to hold him off, and I was very pleased to see the chequered flag. I wasn't going to brake if I didn't need to! I believe it was clean and fair."

 

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  • boudy

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    Redbull is very reliable on his side of the garage. Blimming joke on the other side can't really blame ves if he wants to join Mercedes or Ferrari.

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    • Jul 9 2017 - 19:27
    • Bit of a weird situation.. Max has drove the least laps but everyone knows how good he is

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      • Jul 10 2017 - 10:05

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