NO, he won’t marry you. He doesn’t drink much of his sponsor’s product. And no, Sebastian Vettel isn’t the so-and-so we all think he is.

Nothing was off limits as Daniel Ricciardo was grilled by fans at a promotional event in Melbourne.

Here are a selection of the best questions the crowd at the Melbourne Emporium threw Ricciardo’s way during his appearance in the Grand Prix city.

Question: How good looking do you have to be (to drive in Formula 1)?

DR: I don’t know. Good looking for some, probably not very good looking for others (laughing).

Will you marry me? And if not, can I get a photo?

If not, can you get a photo? You can get a photo.

Have you been naughty or have you been nice? What did you ask Santa for?

I think I’ve been nice. This sounds really corny but I asked Santa if I could spend Christmas at home. It’s been a while since I’ve been back home and being home over Christmas with family and friends means a lot for me. That’s enough, I’ll take that.

Do you drink Red Bull all the time?

Not all the time, because I’d be doing backflips right now. Fortunately I have pretty good energy. I do drink it, but if I drank it all the time I’d be a scary man right now.

Who would you most like to be your teammate?

Alonso. I’m actually going to McLaren next year.

media_camera Daniel Ricciardo celebrates finishing second at the Australian Grand Prix.

All jokes aside, Ricciardo said he got along fine with teammate Sebastian Vettel, whose stoushes and prickly relationship with former Red Bull teammate Mark Webber have become legendary.

“Even if there were some moments on the track, we always tried to clear it up after the race, away from the cameras,” Ricciardo said.

The Australian said Vettel always seemed pleased for him when he won.

“I could feel it was pretty genuine. He was happy for me, I got along with him pretty well. I know all the Mark Webber fans probably were hoping for me to say something else.”

Ricciardo, who finished third in the 2014 driver’s championship in his first season with a genuine top flight team, said the quality of racing this year was among the best he’d seen, even if not everything was to every fan’s taste.

“There was some pros and cons. Obviously the cons, the sound for the spectators,” he said.

“Formula Ones didn’t have that scream again, that real Formula One noise, so I know a few people are pretty upset about that.”

“The big pro this season was the racing. To have a bit less downforce, a bit less grip just seemed to make the racing a lot better.”

“There were so many (on-track) fights going on, very rarely would you see a race that was follow the leader.”

“It should be more exciting again next year.”

Originally published as ‘Vettel and I had our moments’: Ricciardo