As such, Ricciardo has admitted that the feel within the team has evolved in recent times.
“It does feel different, and I think it’s easy to kind of rebrand it and say we’ve got a new look and with this and that, but your actions have to follow,” the 35-year-old said during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend.
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“And I think Laurent, Peter, Alan, a lot of guys that have come in have done that. It’s not that what was happening in the past with Franz, in that example, wasn’t the right thing, but a change sometimes is good.
“You bring in new ideas. They’ve all spent time in other teams, organisations, and yeah, it’s just a new way of looking at things. I think that in itself and their intentions and the way they go about it has made people kind of stand up and say, alright, this isn’t a junior team anymore.”
