Daniel Ricciardo says he felt no need to overdrive his Red Bull RB14 car during qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday as he swept to his second pole pos𝕴ition in Formula 1.

Ricciardo finished fastest with a new track record in every session of the race weekend so far, including all three parts of qualifying as he beat Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel to🍎 pole position in Q3.

Ricciardo’s result was a stark contrast to that of Red Bull teammate Max Verstappen, ♈who will start last on the grid after failing to t🔴ake part in qualifying as a result of his crash in final practice.

Verstappen’s crash acted as proof of tꦏhe fine margins between success a🌄nd failure around the streets of Monaco, and while Ricciardo admitted he did think about the incident, he had complete confidence in the Red Bull RB14 car.  

“It’s alwa🦩ys in the back of your mind here I guess, because the risk and reward is very real and it was proven this morning,” Ricciardo said.

“It’s there, but it’s at the back of your mind because to be fast you can’t think about those things. Knowing we’ve had a great package all weekend, obviously we need to push it, but I don’t think we need to overdrive it as obvio🌊usly the car is performing well - just hit your marks and keep it clean I guess.

“Obviously we are all pushing each other particularly myself and🔯 Max in the same team. It’s no surprise these things can happen and as I said when we are lapping 1m10s, 1m11s. There’s verꦡy little room for error.”

Ricciardo and Verstappen had been evenly-matched through all three practice sessions, but the Australian said he had not been dwelling too much on the battle with his ꧟teammate.

“Obviously you’re aware of your teammate’s speed, but for me, it was a battle with myself, wanting to be the quickest from the start and try and reach my personal goals for the weekend,꧋” Ricciardo said.

“We were close throughout all of the sessions. It co꧃u♐ld be a psychological battle if he sees it that way.

“But for me personallꦆy I just wanted to stick my name on top and just try and keep the momentum up from the start.”