Daniel Ricciardo is still g♐etting used to the brakes on McLaren’s MCL35M Formula 1 car but insists he won’t be leaving anything on the table at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.

After making the switch from Renault to join McLaren over the winter, Ricciardo had the equivalent of just 1.5 days of running to get to grips with his new car during a condensed three-day pre-season test in Bahrain ahea🐼d of the new season.

While McLaren enjoyed an overwhelmingly positive test with Ricciardo making a st💛rong start to life at the Woking-based team, the Australian conceded he is yet to fully adapt to the new brakes.

Despite this, Ricciardo remains confident he will be ab⛎le to pull off some of his trademark late-braking overtakes if required during this weekend’s opening round in Bahrain.

“If I think back to my time at Renault, the car was pretty differen💖t to the Red Bull when it came to braking – and braking was a real strength of the Red Bull,” he explained.

“I had to get used to that difference, but we also had to minimise it by changing the setup and trying to get closer to t﷽he feeling of the Red Bull.

“The McLa♏ren is not in a bad place with the braking though, it’s more a case of me getting used to the differences.

“By day three of testing I was in a better place with the braking and starting to feel pretty comfor👍table wit💫h it,” Ricciardo added.

“I think it w♋ill only improve the more time I spend in the car. Don’t get me wrong though, if I see a gap at the weekend, we’re a𝔍ll good, I’m going for it.”

McLaren continued its impress🎉ive upward trajectory last season by clinching third place in the constructors’ champions☂hip with two podium finishes. Heading into the new campaign boosted by Mercedes’ class-leading power units, Ricciardo is hopeful he can help the team hold onto P3 once more.

๊“I thinkꦺ it would be great to hold on to third place in the constructors’ championship,” he said.

“It’s going to be just as hard as last year to do that, if not harder, so we’re going to have to be on our A-game, but I feel like I have a lot of experience in the sport that can help the team to co🎶ntinue to move 💙forward.

“And it’s not just about me, Lando [Norris] has a good amount of experience too – he got his first podium last year – so I think as a driver line-up we bring a lot of positives 🍬to the team that can drive it forward.”