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From Red Bull

Red Bull Racing driver Daniel Ricciardo admits he was a little bit disappointed by the Australian Grand Prix stewards' decision to disqualify him last week.

"The (disqualification) put a bit of a downer on what had been a brilliant day," he says on his team's website.

"It's not how I imagined celebrating after my first F1 podium."

But the Australian also added he preferred his faith to Sebastian Vettel's. In the sister Red Bull, the quadruple world champion managed only three laps before "power unit" problems sidelined him.

Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull RB10 (Photo: Red Bull Racing)

"I'd rather it went down like this (being disqualified) than have retired from the race with a mechanical problem," he admits.

"I'll take a podium and a subsequent disqualification over that any day of the week."

On the back of his encouraging performance in Melbourne, the former Toro Rosso driver is looking forward to next week's Malaysian Grand Prix.

"Albert Park's made me hungry to get on the podium again," he explains.

"The work we did in the winter targeted reliability rather than performance. It was only in Melbourne that we got the opportunity to start working on a set-up.

"The RB10 surprised us by being pretty competitive in the dry and very competitive in the wet. It's going to get much better as we dial it in over the next few races and catch up with those teams that did more miles pre-season."

From WTCC

Citroën's six-months of preparation for its first season in the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) resulted in a superior pace during the championship's official test at Valencia.

Sébastien Loeb and his C-Elysée car set the pace yesterday on the Ricardo Tormo circuit, well ahead of the two factory Honda Civic cars of Gabriele Tarquini and Tiago Monteiro.

Sébastien Loeb (Photo: Citroën Racing)

The test was also the first occasion to see the brand new Chevrolet RML Cruze in action. Tom Chilton and Hugo Valente took the wheel of the cars run by ROAL Motorsport and Campos Racing respectively.


Despite an early problem with the mounting of the rear wing, that was soon solved by the teams with the help of the RML technicians, the Cruze impressed for speed and consistency considered that this was its very first test after last week's shakedown.


It is worth noticing that the Citroën and Monteiro's Honda were the first race cars built by the teams for the season. While Tarquini was still driving the Civic test car.


Yesterday Campos Racing young new comer John Filippi took also part in the test at the wheel of the TC2 SEAT León, while Citroën's Ma Qing Hua tested on Thursday before handing the car to Loeb.

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