Yeah, Vergne has improved and I'm happy to see it. I'm very interested to see if he can keep building on it because it's a huge step up to the top team on the grid. 'They' say that he's Helmut's favourite too so that could help. I'm surprised about this because he was openly critical of the regime at STR last season.
Indeed, Vergne is getting the better of Ricciardo now even with his added experience in F1. Only needs to sort out dry qualifying and he has got him in every area IMO.
Vergne got the better of Ricciardo last season in his rookie season and is going to comprehensively beat him this season. Ricciardo looked decent in the HRT, but has done nothing of note since