Horner: Ricciardo chosen over Raikkonen for Red Bull drive in 2014

Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, has revealed that Daniel Ricciardo may never have driven for Red Bull. 

Ricciardo joined Red Bull in 2014 following Mark Webber's retirement and had been part of the Red Bull young driver programme before that. 

"(Ricciardo has) been a pleasure to have in the team the last five years," Horner said to express.co.uk.

"He's been with Red Bull since 2007 and it has been great to see him grow and evolve.

"Ironically when we were first faced with a dilemma of who do we replace Mark Webber with.

"Jean-Eric Vergne, there was Daniel Ricciardo, there was Kimi Raikkonen, and our biggest concern about Daniel wasn't his pace but it was that we hadn't seen him race wheel to wheel while he was at Toro Rosso and ever he's been in a Red Bull Racing car he's done nothing but overtake and arguably has become the best overtaker in the business."

Ricciardo went on to have a great time at Red Bull racing in over 100 races whilst Raikkonen went on to race for Ferrari. Both drivers are joining teams which are slower than the ones they are leaving but they will hope that it will work in the long run.