“Generally I would say that both would fit into the Red Bull concept.”
The signs are growing ever stronger than Daniel Ricciardo is a real candidate to replace his Australian countryman Mark Webber at Red Bull next year.
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Tag Archive: Jean-Eric Vergne
Apr 14
From bad to worse!
Red Bull has signed up a female driver to its famous driver development ‘junior team’. 
Mar 12
Ricciardo vows to thrash Vergne in 2013
Daniel Ricciardo has vowed to thrash Jean-Eric Vergne in 2013, proving he deserves to graduate to the world championship-winning Red Bull team.
Once good friends, the Toro Rosso pair recently admitted the fire of their rivalry had driven them apart. “No, we don’t see each other away from the track and we are not friends,” Vergne, 22, confirmed last month.
Mar 12
‘Being a Webber’ not enough – Villeneuve
Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne need to really shine if they are to be promoted by Red Bull.
That is the claim of Jacques Villeneuve, the outspoken 1997 world champion turned television pundit. Youngsters Ricciardo and Vergne have been given a second full season each at Red Bull’s junior team Toro Rosso, but Villeneuve thinks they face a tough task to prove they should be slotted in for 2014 alongside Sebastian Vettel.
Feb 24
Toro Rosso teammates no longer friends
Jean-Eric Vergne says he is no longer friends with his Toro Rosso teammate.
Until they were paired together at the second Red Bull team, Frenchman Vergne and Australian Daniel Ricciardo were friends. They had been signed to the energy drink company’s notoriously tough driver development programme on the same day, thereafter working together in Formula Renault.
Feb 06
Toro Rosso duo in running for Webber’s seat
Jean-Eric Vergne has revealed he is still in the running to move up to Red Bull’s championship-winning team in 2014.
The Frenchman, who last year debuted for the energy drink company’s junior squad Toro Rosso, said he and continuing teammate Daniel Ricciardo are potential candidates in the event Mark Webber does not stay beyond his contract this year.
Feb 05
Toro Rosso reveals cautious car for 2013
Toro Rosso on Monday unveiled a cautious evolution of its 2012 car for Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne to race this season.
With a FIA-sanctioned ‘vanity panel’ on the front nose, the new STR8 no longer features the ‘double floor’ of 2012, and the exhaust is notably conventional. “I just wanted to create a sound base rather than get bogged down in details,” technical director James Key, formerly of Sauber, was quoted by Speed Week.
Feb 04
Scuderia Toro Rosso launched the STR8
STR8 away!
Scuderia Toro Rosso today revealed its new car, the eighth in the team’s history, in the Jerez de la Frontera pit lane, at an event organised by the team’s Spanish sponsor, CEPSA. The wraps were pulled off the STR8 by our unchanged driver line-up of Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne.