Daniel Ricciardo says he is still adapting to life 🌊at Renault having grown comfortable at Red Bull in Formu♏la 1.

The Australian driver made❀ the headline-grabbing move to Renault this winter after spending effectively his entire career in the💞 Red Bull fold.

Both Ricciardo and Renault teammate Nico Hulkenberg narrowly missed out on reaching Q3 in qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix, with the German driver edging his new teammate in 11^th place by 0.008s at his home race in Melbourne.

With Ricciardo set to start the 2019 opener in 12^th place, he feels he hasn’t been naïve in getting𓄧 up to speed at Renault but concedes it is꧒ taking a while for him to adapt to the French manufacturer which has a less stable car compared to what he’s been used to.

“I don’t want to say I underestimated but I am certainly understanding, it is taking a bit of time to figure out the magnitude of changes,” Ricciardo said. “With Red Bull I was so comfortable with the car that ok two steps up on front wing and I knew exactly what thꦑat would do.

“Now a💧t the moment, two steps, three steps, I am not sure to what extent it is going to change. So little things like that.

“It is coming, I’ve jus𒆙t got to build that library of knowledge up in my head as qui🍬ckly as possible.

“The exciting thing is that once that does start to flow a lot more naturally that will not only give me more confidence, b𓆏ut also givಌe my engineer more confidence. That is then going to start to give everyone a good feeling.”

Ricciardo was b⛎anned from taking part in the 2018 post-season test in Abu Dhabi due to his Red Bull contract obligations, leaving him less time to famil🃏iarise himself with Renault compared to the rest of the F1 driver changes in 2019.