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Red Bull: We've setup the car for a dry race
Daniel Ricciardo during Spa qualifying
Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo, who qualified fifth, said Red Bull had run a dry set-up in Belgian Grand Prix qualifying because the team could not afford to compromise straight-line speed with extra down-force.
Speaking after a damp session at Spa-Francorchamps the Australian said, 'We've set the car up for a dry race so, even though we're typically quite strong in the wet, we knew that our set-up would bring us down to the level of some guys around us.'
Ricciardo's best Q3 time was almost 2.5 seconds down on Nico Rosberg's pole winning best, 'The gap to Mercedes was pretty big. We thought we'd be able to close it up a bit in the wet. They were...
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