Daniel Ricciardo will be on the attack from the second the lights go out in Albert Park as he looks to give the home crowd something to cheer after his sub-par performance in qualifying on Saturday.

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The Aussie starts 12th on the grid having been out-qualified by his Renault teammate Nico Hulkenberg, who starts in P11.

“It’s funny, half a tenth would have made it much more pleasurable being in Q3,” Ricciardo said on Saturday. “That was really the target because I thought we could achieve it.

“Yeah, half a tenth, you can always find that in a driver so I blame myself for the Q3 before I blame the car. It got stacked up going into the last corner and there was jostling for track position, everyone was just going slow.”

At the front of the grid it’s a Mercedes lock-out as Lewis Hamilton broke the lap record in Melbourne to claim his sixth consecutive pole and his eighth at Albert Park.

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