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Red Bull had hoped for a good race in Mexico, as the high altitude reduced the gap between Renault and the main opponent.
However, the team was competitive on most sites at the end of the season, which suggests that the development of its chbadis has exceeded that of Mercedes and Ferrari.
"This sport is sometimes so confusing," Ricciardo said. "Even Brazil, I was amazed at the pace we had.
"At the start of the race, I was crossing the pack and normally you damaged your tires, but by that time, I could still see that I was faster than the Ferrari and the Mercedes.
"It was hard to overtake, but I knew we had the pace, I do not know if we did it right or if others did it badly, but we've certainly been quick lately. races. "
When asked if his departure for Renault meant that he was not getting all the details on the updates, he replied, "Well, I probably would not know it anyway!
"This sport is so complex, but they know their strengths well, I think this year's aerodynamics has become very strong, but even all the geometry, the suspension of the car.
"In this kind of situation, you look at the other pbadengers of the cars and see that the helmets of the other pilots move a lot, and ours are motionless.
"I think everything, the total compliance of the car that they have really successful this year.I do not know the details, but I think it's also one of the highlights of the car." 39; team ".
Max Verstappen pointed out that the bottom line was that the Red Bull updates generally worked as expected.
"We are still improving the car and I think all the updates we made to the car have worked," he said. "So that's good, and I think other teams struggled to put new parts on the car that immediately worked.
"So, I think that in Brazil, I was surprised in the race, we were so fast, because I could already see after one lap, two laps, it was really easy to follow them while all the world was in tire saving mode.
"Mexico was definitely our target, we still did not know how much we were going to lose in the straight line, I was pretty happy to be able to even get out of it."
Team manager Christian Horner acknowledged that the team had made great progress after the break in August.
"We have made good progress and development with the car," Horner said. "Really, just after the summer holidays, we managed to [improve].
"At Spa, we were on the podium, we should have stepped on the podium at Monza, Singapore we were strong, Russia we were strong, obviously Japan, Mexico, Texas, there was a solid series of podiums.
"So we made a lot of progress with the car in the second half and the car was very strong at first.
"We lost ground in the Montreal era when engine upgrades were introduced, and we gave way to Mercedes and Ferrari, but after the summer break, we managed to regain a competitive position. . "
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