Daniel Ricciardo b🎶elieves he will be more comfortable in this year's McLaren Formula 1 car once he ge🍎ts to drive it under the floodlights in Bahrain.

The Australian has topped both morning sessions so far in pre-seas𓆉on testing at the Bahrain International 🤡Circuit. 

The new McLaren has impressed many during testing with its i🎐nnovative diffuser dꦿesign attracting a lot of attention.

With the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix taking place under the floodlights💜, Ricciardo is itching to give the MCL𓃲35M a spin in more representative conditions.

Reflecting on his p𓃲erformance so far in testing, Ricciardo said: “I think it’s all gone pretty smooth. I don’t know what could have gone better yet past the lap times but generally it’s been pretty good and we’ve🤡 done most runs that we’ve planned. I do the evening session tomorrow, and I think that will just complete the picture.

“That’s obviously when we race here and qualify, so that’ll give me a better understanding of where the limit of the carꦬ is, in let’s say, more optimum co♊nditions.”

Ricciardo believes driving in the evening session on day three will allow him to truly acclimatise to 💛his new surroundings.

“It’s a tough one,” Ricciardo added. “You never want to admit that you are not driving to 🦂the limit yet or anything, but the reality is that it does take a little bit of time to execute it 100 percent. I thin﷽k I’m certainly getting close, but am I truly at one with the car yet?

“Not yet. I expe🅠ct to get a fair bit 🐲out of myself tomorrow in the evening session and I expect to start getting closer to that.

“From a race weekend and dialing into strategic stuff with the team and going through a race simulation, I’m pretty comfortable. I think it’s really just me getting comfortable within myself and the car. It naturally takes a bit of ꦡtime but I don’t really want to give myself the time.”