Daniel Ricciardo asserted that Renault has the capacity to improve his position, which they have been unable to do in the first half of the season.
Ricciardo is hopeful about the team if they are able to identify and improve few lagging issues before the resumption of the season after summer break.
The French team has lost two positions this year and currently stands at sixth place. The team has been able to score only in half of the opening 12 races this season.
The team had been positive about their standings this season with Daniel Ricciardo acquisition, who have left Red Bull for better opportunity.
Unfortunately, the team went into summer-break with lower standing than last year. McLaren was able to make a better standing than Renault with 43 points on their score card.
Ricciardo admitted that McLaren is extracting more juice from their power-plant package at the moment. And he believes that similar performance can be achieved by his team if they could be more frequent in improvements.
“Everyone I feel has just been executing a bit more frequently than us,” said Ricciardo.
“I still believe that we have got all the tools and the car underneath us to be getting the results that, say, McLaren are getting.
“I think at the moment they can probably execute on a few more tracks than we can, but I feel like when we start the weekend on the front foot we are normally ending there. It’s probably just understanding a bit better to starting position and having a bit more confidence in ourselves.”
“A bit like going out so late [onto the track] in Q1, I don’t think we needed to,” he said. “I think we should have had the confidence in the car to get through.
“Just keeping the confidence and spirits up in the team because I think we are good enough.”
Renault was the only team who failed to find place in top ten for Germany-Hungary double-header. They were hit by engine and performance issues.
“After a weekend like this part of me is like when it does come good you’ll remember these weekends and remember this feeling,” said Ricciardo. “That’s then what makes the success, or the good weekends, sweeter.”
The 30-year-old added: “Just trying to work through this period. I think the summer break has come at a good time and recuperate.
“I think we’ve got it in us to make the second half of the season better. So we’ll try and do that.”
