Daniel Ricciardo has his sights set on a podium finish to cap off his stint with the R⭕ed Bull Formula 1 team at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand 𝓀Prix.

Ricciardo will start his final race with Red Bull before his switch to Renault from fifth on th🥂e grid in Abu Dhabi, having narrowly missed out on outpacing the Ferrari pair despite setting a blistering final sec♐tor – the fastest of anyone – in Q3.

The Australian ended up just 0.036s adrift of Kimi 🀅Raikkonen’s time, though he did manage to outqualify Red Bull teammate Max Verstappen. Ricciardo is confident he will be able to mix it up with the Ferrari pair in Sunday’s race as he bids to score a first podium since winning the Monaco Grand Prix in May.

‘I put myself in their [Ferrari’s race now, so just got to try an✨d get at least one,” Ricciardo said.

“I’ll be looking at both Ferraris on the start, try and climb my way to a podium. Race pace is good, even if we✅ hang there we can try and un꧃dercut or something, so we’ll give it a go.”

Ricciardo reckons Verstappen, who will start al🧸ongside him on the third🧔 row on Hypersofts, could be better placed for the race due to the RB14’s strength at managing Pirelli’s softest tyres compared to Red Bull’s rivals.

The Hypersoft I’m sure the first lap there𒈔 will be a grip advantage but hop🍒efully it is not too much,” he explained.

“Hypersofts would have given us more of an advantage but the Ultrasofts is a bit more consistent, and unless we see degrada൲tion from that tyre it is probably going to be - not a p🐽redicable race - but less to do.

“For sure the first couple laps w꧒🔜e can’t get too clever,” he added. “We just have to do our race. My objective is to try and attack the guys ahead.

“If it works out that he [Max Verstapꦿpeไn] is a second quicker and I’m losing pace then maybe they do something. But hopefully I’m just fast and that’s that.”

Asked if he is pre🍌pared to take more risks in order to 🏅finish on the podium, Ricciardo replied: “I’m always prepared, so I’m not going to say I’ll take more risks than I normally do.

“I have nothing to lose. But I have not had anything to lose all year, so for👍 once we will try get a strong start, and just attack, put pressure on,🌄 and be relentless.

“Sometimes cooling down is good for the tyres. But I’m just going to try an🍸d 🍌put pressure the whole race and hope for a mistake if I’m behind one of those guys.”