Analysis: Raikkonen v Ricciardo - how Red Bull decides F1 2014 seat
Analysis: Raikkonen v Ricciardo - how Red Bull decides F1 2014 seat By Jonathan Noble Daniel Ricciardo will have no greater chance to prove he is ready for the step up to Red Bull than his afternoon of running with the team at Silverstone on Wednesday. He will be sat in the same car, and run at the same track, that Mark Webber scored a podium in a few weeks ago in the British Grand Prix. There is rarely such a golden opportunity for back-to-back analysis of performance. But even if he does a brilliant job in the RB9, Red Bull's chiefs are still going to have to do some number crunching to work out if the Australian is the man they need. For Red Bull is not a team that can afford to be swayed by personal preference, a hunch, or a beaming Australian smile. It is cold-hard statistics that will count for its verdict. With the fight for the vacant Red Bull now appearing to have distilled down to a fight between ...