Schwazer
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Meh, I don't buy it.
Ricciardo pushed aside Vettel in exactly the same way Max pushed Daniel down the pecking order, Let's not forget Sebastian Vettel was the four time Champion and the darling of the RBR team.
In this game "it's put up or shut up", he had the same equipment to prove he was world class at RBR (by challenging Max).
He should have stuck it out for another season or two at RBR and worked a bit harder.
I really like him, but I suspect he is just a bit too nice and easy going for the very top echelon, I get that there is a fair bit of distaste for Max and RBR on SF, but thats how "Alpha Males" operate, you have to dominate (like Lewis has).
You can see already that Lando Norris is doing it at McLaren, he was happy to play understudy to the experienced Carlos and was very friendly with him, but when he had to beat one of the supposed "Top Guns" in F1, different personality altogether.
I've mentioned it before that Ricciardo never had that "killer factor" to be a World champion. He always wanted to be the nice and funny guy that everyone likes.
Rosberg had to be ruthless and stand his ground against Hammy in all the years at Mercedes culminating to his title win in 2016. He had to do it because Hammy was naturally faster and more talented than him.