The Australian, running an aerodynamic upgrade, was fastest in both sessions, heading Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel by 0.183 seconds in the afternoon.
Lewis Hamilton, trailing Vettel by a point at the top of the championship, was struggling for grip on the fastest super-soft tyres and down in fifth.
But the Mercedes driver was quickest of all on soft tyres early in the session.
Nevertheless, Hamilton did appear to be struggling in the second session. Mercedes said he lacked grip on his qualifying-simulation run on the super-softs and was also off the pace on his race-fuel laps later on.
“It is very close between the top three teams,” said Hamilton. “Today has been really gusty. I got out but I just didn’t finish the laps on the super-soft tyre.”
“Good day, can’t complain,” said Ricciardo. “It’s nice. We brought some updates here and they seem to be working. I do feel like we have gained some grip in the car and I definitely feel we’ve taken a step in the right direction.”
Hamilton’s team-mate Valtteri Bottas was third fastest overall, 0.2secs off Ricciardo’s ultimate pace and 0.1secs ahead of the second Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen.
Max Verstappen trailed Red Bull team-mate Ricciardo by 0.4secs and was sixth.
Bottas was quickest on the race runs on the soft tyres but Ricciardo led the way on heavy fuel on the super-soft tyre…
Source: Hungarian GP: Daniel Ricciardo fastest in improved Red Bull – BBC Sport
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