Daniel Ricciardo says Renault has a few areas to address ahead of Monaco Grand Prix🐻 qualifying following a low-key day of practice running.

Both Renault driv𓆉ers looked relatively competitive in opening practice but dropped to 16th and 17th in the timesheet♐s by the end of FP2, some 1.7s off the pace of Thursday leader Lewis Hamilton.

Ricciardo said set-up changes in the afternoon put both drivers on the back 𒊎foot and remains confident that Renault can extract more performance in time for 🍬qualifying, which he feels will be aided by an extra day of analysis during Friday’s traditional rest day.

“We can definitely be better than what I was t🎃oday,” Ricciardo said at the end of running on Thursday.

“But we do have to address the issues we had. 🐼If we do gain that little bit th🥂en, this is one of those places where you get a bit more confidence, then the lap time will come. Hopefully we will find it in the next 24 hours.

“The morning was pretty good and th🍌e initial signs were quite positive. I felt like I was able to get up 🅠to speed and into a rhythm quickly,” he added.

“We had a bit of optimism for the afternoon to build on that. But the changes didn’t seem to help. I didn’t feel as pleased with the car in the afternoon.

“We could not improve mu🦩ch on what we did in the morning. So quite a few place🔯s on track we have got to address things. So there are some things with set up that we can do, go back a bit on what we changed.”

Asked where he feels improvements can be made❀, Ricciardo, who won last year's race in Monte Carlo, ౠ;replied: “A little bit everywhere for sure.

“Personally I know that Saturday there is still a bit more to come. ꦜYou don’t need to do everything on Thu💛rsday.

“In myself I know that there is a little bit of lap time, but not the second we are looking for. So there will⛦ be a bit in me, but in the car, it is a bit everywhere. The middle sector can be better, in the tight twisty stuff.

“I’m still driving around here with some confidence, but there are a few places where I want t𝔍o be able to come off the brakes a bit sooner and carry that speed𝓡 through.

“We pinpointed a few areas, and will give the gu🍬ys some homework to try and work on. I will still try to figure out a few places I can gಌet more out of myself.”

Hulkenberg blamed his low-key performance in FP2 down to encountering traff🍸ic during his qualifying simulation run on Soft tyres.

“My soft tyre run in FP2 was quiteꦉ disturbed with a lot of traffic, so there’s quite a bit of lap time in hand there,” he explained.

“But on both of my rea🐻lly good laps, I had guys in the middle sector who were not very helpful, so I lost a lot of lap time w♛ith it.

“So maybe a little less together, a little less happy in the afternoon. In a way, good to have a day off to pick through the data and come up with the best possible set-up🗹 for Saturday and Sunday.”