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Vettel was more of a gamble than Ricciardo, he'd only had one season under his belt, and it's was very mixed. Didn't he dnf on the first lap 3-4 races in a row in 2008?
Although he did win a race and RB wasn't the top team back then.
They kind of have to support their driver program, otherwise it just makes a mockery of it and the Torro Rosso team. Kimi was slightly different, because he's a top 4 driver in F1. Hulkenberg is not.
It'll be strange seeing Da Costa in the Torro Rosso next year, in some ways he hasn't really earned that seat yet. A few wins in WSR, mostly last year, and then a solid comeback in Gp3 in 2012 (only because Mitch just couldn't seem to string some luck together in the latter half) doesn't put him above guys like Valsecchi and Frijns who are champions.
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