{"id":21658,"date":"2014-04-19T07:37:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T11:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21658"},"modified":"2014-04-19T07:37:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T11:37:30","slug":"red-bull-surprised-by-ricciardo-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-surprised-by-ricciardo-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull &#8216;surprised&#8217; by Ricciardo pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Ricciardo thinks he has shown he deserves his new seat at Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2014-rif-images\/f1-2014-drivers\/Daniel-Ricciardo-3.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel-Ricciardo-3\" width=\"391\" height=\"260\" \/>The Australian had driven at backmarker HRT and Red Bull&#8217;s junior team Toro Rosso, but this year he stepped up to the big league to replace his retired countryman Mark Webber.<\/p>\n<p>Some think Ricciardo currently has a better grip on the reigning world champions&#8217; new RB10 even than quadruple title winner and teammate Sebastian Vettel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team have been a bit surprised,&#8221; the always-smiling Ricciardo grinned to the Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old has had a quite luckless 2014 season so far: disqualified in Melbourne and caught up in trouble in Malaysia, but he finished a solid fourth two weeks ago in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>Ricciardo suggests he has exceeded even his own expectations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to say it \u2013 I don&#8217;t want to sound arrogant \u2013 but I believe a lot in myself, and I believed if I had the right equipment and the right opportunity then I would be able to show what I&#8217;m capable of, and that&#8217;s been shown now,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t surprised myself but it&#8217;s been nice to confirm it to myself that I can do this.\u00a0 I believe I can keep doing it,&#8221; Ricciardo added.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Ricciardo thinks he has shown he deserves his new seat at Red Bull. The Australian had driven at backmarker HRT and Red Bull&#8217;s junior team Toro Rosso, but this year he stepped up to the big league to replace his retired countryman Mark Webber. Some think Ricciardo currently has a better grip on the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[1096,5262,5340,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21659,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21658\/revisions\/21659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}