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Think the Ricciardo vs JEV battle has been a really interesting subplot since the start of 2012 and its been close. Think Vergne started well despite his lack of F1 experience compared to Ricciardo, then fell back into a real rut as Dan got that P6 in Bahrain and started to look pretty fast. All the talk turned to Dan and as Vergne was struggling all the time to make Q2 he looked increasingly like a lost cause. Thought he'd had it. Ricciardo was flying, getting points finishes and asserting himself well ahead.
But something changed maybe around Spa and now a couple of races into 2013 Vergne is probably back ahead. The problem with Ricciardo I think is that he's quite fast - but that's probably about it. Vergne has an issue in qualifying but seems increasingly to just have far more facets to his ability - he races so well bar the odd silly collision. And it's SO easy to forget that through it all he had Ricciardo well beaten on points in 2012, 16 to 10.
I reckon one of them will be in a RB next season, probably JEV.
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