Renault Formula 1 driver Daniel Ri💜cciardo reck𝔍ons his RP20 is faster than results suggest and “has a bit more speed than Ferrari”.

The French manufacturer has claimed eighth place 🐻at the three opening rounds of the delayed 2020 season in Austria and Hungary, with Ricciardo taking back-to-back P8s in the last two races.

Ricciardo finished the Hungarian Grand Prix just two seconds behind Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel, while Racingꦇ Point’s Sergio Perez split the pair in seventh.

“We have had eigh🙈th every race,” Ricciardo said. “Look, obviously eighth is not bad, but I do really feel that we’ve hဣad a bit more speed than an eighth-place car in all three of those races. At least the last two.

“I feel that we are not far from one of those top five, top six finishes. I feel that we have a bit more speed than Ferrari at the moment. A🐷t least it seems so, the race pace is not too bad. So it is coming.

“It is good to have got the points, but I know there are some bigger o🌃nes around the corner. It looked like we had a bit more pace than McLaren today. I am not sure where their race went, but we were pretty close to the Racing Point, so not too sh🀅abby.”

Ricciardo sits 11th in the drivers’ standings, 🍒one place and one point behind Vettel, while Renault occupies sixth place in the 2020 cons🐓tructors’ championship, 15 points adrift of fifth-placed Ferrari.

The Australian hopes upgrades coming in time for back-to-back races at Silverstone will help b🦄oost Renault’s chances in the midfield fight.

“Updates are always pretty nice and handy, and Silverstone is one of those tracks, there is som💮e low-speed stuff, but it is pretty flowing with medium- and high-speed corner🅷s,” he explained.

“[That’s] really where the car is loaded, and where you see the front endplate, those types of corners where it drags and everyone is trying to work on this 👍area of the car to keepꦆ some downforce in it and that high-speed role.

“Silverstone will test🦄 that and see iജf these updates can help.”