Daniel Ricciardo says the Red Bull team are "pumped" about locking out the second-row of the grid for Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix, with only the two Mercedes cars ahead of them.
Max Verstappen and Ricciardo will line up third and fourth respectively and the Australian reckons their long-run pace will give them an opportunity to not only keep Ferrari at bay, but to challenge Mercedes if they can get a strong start.
"Our race pace is looking good too as we saw from Max’s sessions yesterday," said Ricciardo. "We should have a nice battle for the podium tomorrow and we’ll try to stay ahead of the Ferraris.
"They are normally pretty good on their tyres here but we have an extra set of soft tyres for the race which should work well for us.
"As a team we are pumped to lock out the second row at this circuit and we should have a good race on our hands for tomorrow."
Verstappen, who had an awful start in Singapore, is confident the problem that led to that has been resolved.
"After Singapore I talked with the team and we changed some things on the car and it seems to have worked, hopefully we can keep improving in this way.
"We have made some changes to the clutch so we shall see if it has improved tomorrow, so far everything looks positive."
