Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne both feel they're ready to step up

Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne were not in total agreement on Thursday when asked how they might catch the eye of Red Bull bosses following Mark Webber's announcement that he's moving on.

Ricciardo and Vergne are not the only candidates, however. The prospect of Kimi Raikkonen partnering Sebastian Vettel next season looms increasingly large. Vettel remains the only Red Bull-backed driver to rise through the ranks to the very top and while Ricciardo acknowledged the unwanted obstacle that could prevent him joining the triple World Champion, Vergne once again preferred to play it cool. "In a perfect world, I'd love one of us juniors to go through and do what Seb did. I think that's their real philosophy and programme. I think they'd love to see one of us start to shine and get a string of awesome races and turn heads. That'll make the decision easy for them," Ricciardo said. "If they choose someone like Kimi, okay he's experienced, he's a World Champion and they're a World Championship-winning team - you can't argue with something they may end up doing. "For me, I've got to make sure I get the next few races the way I want them to and at least I can say, 'I've done all I could'." "I'm here to do a job at Toro Rosso and try not to look at what everyone else says," Vergne added. "If I start thinking, 'Maybe I could get a World Champion car, maybe I could stay here, maybe I could go away from F1' then you start losing your focus and that's not what I want."