DANIEL RICCIARDO

“WE’VE STILL GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO, BUT I DEFINITELY DON’T THINK IT’S IMPOSSIBLE.”

How are you feeling, Dan? Tired after your first season with Renault?

I definitely feel good coming off the last few. We finally had two good back-to-back races, actually with Mexico and Austin — and if I look at Suzuka as well, I think the last three have been pretty awesome. Obviously you’ll get the probably the bored critics who will say, “Oh well, Suzuka wasn’t”, that kind of thing. But I think everyone who knows actually what we were doing knows that it didn’t really change the outcome of that race. So looking at that I think we’ve had three real good ones on the trot, which is really encouraging and I want to keep it going.

You've said your target for 2020 is a single podium and champagne. Is that realistic, given the team’s position this year?

Sitting here where we are today for sure, to make it realistic we’ve still got a lot of work to do, but I definitely don’t think it’s impossible. And I see what McLaren’s