Ricciardo '100 per cent' would have attacked Vettel - unlike Bottas

Daniel Ricciardo has fired another message to Mercedes, saying he would have "100 per cent" gone for the last-lap move on Sebastian Vettel that Valtteri Bottas was unable to at the Bahrain Grand Prix. Bottas had to settle for second place after Vettel had nursed an unlikely 39 laps out of soft tyres.

Mercedes' one-stop strategy looked to have put Bottas in command - team boss Toto Wolff even suggesting he had a "90 per cent chance" of victory - but Ferrari and Vettel scrambled to hold him off.

Having closed to within DRS range of the Ferrari for the final lap, Bottas could not get close enough to make a move stick on Vettel.

Ricciardo suggested at the Australian Grand Prix that he would have been capable of delivering the record-breaking pole time set by Lewis Hamilton and his latest comments could be another hint as to where his future lies in 2019 and beyond.

"I definitely would have sent it - 100 per cent," he told Sky Sports F1 of the last lap in Bahrain.

"I would have gone. There's a gap, you're finishing second anyway, if you overshoot you're finishing second.

"Last lap, for the win, you have to go. You have to go. Take them both out [if it goes wrong].

"How the race would have gone, I don't know. I don't want to say I would have won, but if that was me on the last lap you can bet everything that I was going for it."

Although Bottas conceded that he could have put Vettel under more pressure earlier in the race, he has no regrets over his hesitance at the last.

"I have reviewed everything and if I could relive the situation again, I wouldn't do anything differently," Bottas said.

"Afterwards and from the outside it is easy to say 'You should have done this, you should have done that'.

"We analysed all the scenarios and it is nearly impossible to say what would have been the best.

"From each race there is always something you can do better and probably in the middle stint we could have tried to pressurise Sebastian a bit more because we had a decent pace. But what would have happened in the end with the tyres, that is a question mark."