MELBOURNE, Australia -- Daniel Ricciardo says it would be a pretty solid Saturday if he could replicate his seventh place finish from second practice during qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix.
The Australian, who is competing in his first race for new team Renault this weekend, overcame an issue with his seatbelt -- one which saw him miss out on valuable track time -- to set the seventh quickest time of the day. His lap of 1:23.644 on Friday was just over a second off the pace of Lewis Hamilton's session-topping time, but only 0.070s adrift of teammate Nico Hulkenberg in P6.