Daniel Ricciardo admitted his entirely unexpected frontrow result on his Red Bull debut in Melbourne would do wonders for his confidence after the local hero conclusively outperformed World Champion team-mate Sebastian Vettel in their first qualifying head-to-head. With Red Bull having already shown far stronger than expected pace in practice after a winter of torrid unreliability with the new RB10, Ricciardo used his own encouraging early form at Albert Park - the 24-year-old outpaced Vettel in two of the three sessions - as a springboard to even greater feats in qualifying, particularly once the rain started to fall. While Vettel struggled for pace and dropped out in Q2, Ricciardo emerged...
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