Introducing Red Bull's new driver & Sebastian Vettel's next team-mate: Daniel Ricciardo

Daniel Ricciardo is stepping up to the senior Red Bull team in 2014, but what do we know about the Toro Rosso driver?

This season Ricciardo has qualified an average of over three places ahead of his team-mate, with a career best fifth place start at Silverstone, and boosts a 7-4 head-to-head record, having finished 2012 with a commanding 16-4 Saturday record. With race drivers allowed to test tyres at this year's Young Driver Test in July, the sport - and Red Bull - were afforded the opportunity to see Sebastian Vettel and Ricciardo in the same machinery and in similar conditions for the first time. The Australian's fastest time in the RB9 on the Silverstone grand prix circuit was 0.293 seconds slower than what Vettel managed the following day, prompting speculation that, with more time in the Red Bull car, Ricciardo has the pace to challenge Vettel. In 2014, we will find out whether that suspicion is well founded or not...