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Formula One driver Daniel Ricciardo is looking for further improvements next year after an impressive debut season with Red Bull. He wants the team to close the gap on champions Mercedes.

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SOUNDBITE: (English) Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull (Q: You heard it from Lewis Hamilton, you've had an excellent season and he's slightly concerned about you next year. What is 2015 about for you?)

"Hopefully better things. I think this year was a big, big step forward in my career, a big step in the direction I wanted it to go in. Yeah there was the Mercedes dominance, but I was able to score the only other three wins of the season, so that was obviously a big year for me and now once you make one step you want to keep making more and I won't settle for anything else now. So we'll see, I'm sure, Lewis was very humble, but I'm sure Mercedes are going to be very quick again next year, but the gap is there for us to close and hopefully we can do that. So looking forward to the future now."