Horner praises Red Bull drivers for teamwork

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has praised Daniel Ricciardo and Daniil Kvyat for their teamwork this season.

Ricciardo came in to 2015 off the back of three wins and third place in last year's drivers' championship, while Kvyat struggled in the early rounds of his first season with the team but came on strongly. The two drivers eventually finished just three points apart in the standings at the end of a tough season which saw Red Bull slip to fourth in the constructors' championship.

In Monaco the pair swapped places to allow Ricciardo to attack Lewis Hamilton for third before he handed the position back to Kvyat on the final lap, and Horner praised the way both drivers worked together throughout a difficult year.

"Daniel handled it extremely well," Horner said. "Neither driver let their chin drop. I commended them in the debrief [in Abu Dhabi] about the way they worked this year as a pairing, the way they worked for the team, has been excellent. The way they have worked together. Both Daniels have done an excellent, excellent job for the team this year."

While Ricciardo claims Red Bull actually caught Mercedes in terms of chassis performance across the season, Horner is a little more reserved about making such a statement.

"We will never really know. We see all the overlays. We see the amounts of wing that they are running, the additional bolt on wing that we simply cannot afford to carry. Then we see the corner speeds and we are very competitive with them. How will we ever know? But from the analysis tools and the overlays that we see, the chassis as certainly been very competitive. And of course our opponents see that as well."

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