Current Daniil Kvyat

Daniil Vyacheslavovich Kvyat or Danny Kvyat to you and I seemed to come as a shock to some as Toro Rosso's choice for a race seat that prompted all sorts of money accusations however if people had been paying attention then it might have been less of a shock.

With Ricciardo being promoted to the A-Team it was only logical that Toro Rosso were going to promote one of their youth squad to the race seat and whilst Kvyat was not at the front of the queue in the fame stakes he certainly got there in the results stakes. At the begining of 2013 he was third in line to the throne sitting firmly behind the ever popular 'oh-my-god-he's-a-future-world-champion' Felix Da Costa and the 'oh-my-god-he's-the-talented-son-of-a-rally-driving-champ' Carlos Sainz Jr. Da Costa was to run with the big boys in the 3.5 series, Sainz Jr was to run in GP3 with races in the 3.5 series when he could whilst Danny was to run in GP3 and as a none points scorer in European F3. Da Costa proceded to throw away his hard earned reputation with a string of mediocre results and as the season went on he looked more and more out classed by Magnussen and Van Dorne. Sainz Jr went at it like a wild man and never failed to look quick, however he was a complete magnet for accidents and most of the time you were watching him coming back through the field after having a nose cone taken off. Our friend Kvyat on the other hand played the slowly slowly catchy monkey game with a quiet but firm start to his GP3 season he kept himself in contention whilst his team sorted out issues with his tyres and then when it came to the start of the second half of the season in Spa he went into overdrive. In a GP3 season that has seen around 10 different winners and the winners of the feature races just falling off the pace in the sprint race Kvyat turned it on its head by winning the last 3 feature races and coming through the field for points finishes in the sprint races. At some points he looked Vettel like untouchable. If you look at that and compare it with what Da Costa and Sainz Jr were doing at the time it shouldn't be a shock to anyone that Toro Rosso decided he was the guy to promote.

Its no doubt that 2014 will be a tricky year for him in F1, although the commentators pronouncing his name will have just as tricky a time (The V is silent apparently). He's come in with brand new rules, very little track time and is up against a much under rated teammate in Jean Eric Vergne who might just have a point to prove. Also as Kyvat has spent the last 2 years winning everything in sight (GP3 Champion in 2013, Formula Renault 2.0 champion in 2012) it will take some time to adjust to fighting in the middle of the pack. Doesn't seem to be the best qualifyer in the world but he does seem to be very cool and calm under pressure and if you give him a good car he gets the best out of it. He also has the Vettel like ability of coming good just as its squeeky bum time.

No doubt you'll spend most of the year hearing about how he is the second Russian to race in F1 and that he'll be looking forward to his home race, however Kvyat was actually born in Bashkortostan which is a soverign state and a subject of Russia. So its all a bit Scotland/Britian which makes him Russia's answer to Paul Di Resta (although he'd prefer you to say Jackie Stewart). He was only born in April 1994 (only about a week before the death of Senna) which makes him not even 20 yet which always leaves the worry that he might crack under the pressure of it all.

It could be the Kvyat just becomes another name on the Red Bull failure list but don't think for a minute he hasn't earned his place in the team. I have a sneeky feeling he'll do better than a lot of people think he will do.

What do people think? Another Vettel or another Jamie Alguersauri?
 
OK, :cheers:
I do find his career to be interesting, he's not shit of course otherwise he wouldn't have got a drive in any major single seat series. I had to chuckle when my Sochi prediction came true (not sure anyone noticed my hilarious post on the matter), as I'm sure there was a whole load of Putin dollars behind him.
 
RasputinLives There are rumours going around that Kyvat may not see out the season and Gasly will be promoted similar to like Algarsuari did back in 2009

With regards to PR officer I don't think anyone would trust a word that Vladimir Putin says if he was Kyvat's PR officer
 
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Trouble for him is it don't matter an awful lot because he never really matched Sainz at Torro Rosso anyway. Works against him if he ever wants to land a top-drive because the big teams look for drivers who can be relied on to perform at every Grand Prix, not just when they're in "a good place" emotionally...
 
Random fact, Danii is in relationship with Nelson Piquet's daughter Kelly. Luckily she has her mothers looks.
 
I'm a bit worried by Kvyat being influenced by the Piquets - he's of the calibre that he could get away with deliberately crashing for a year because no-one would suspect it was out of the ordinary too!
 
This I think confirms one of three things

either

a) one of Sainz, Verstappen or Ricciardo is leaving and because Red Bull only have Gasly in the wings they have to re-sign Kvyat

b) Marko's dislike of Gasly is bigger than we thought

Or

c) The international Red Bull brand has focused it's attention on pissing off gethinceri as much as they can
 
Christian Horner joins the queue of people waiting to piss off gethinceri

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For Dani , Sainz has been getting more angrier with him every race so for the team the two have to be separated

It makes you wonder why Piers Gasly will not be promoted apart someone stupidly blabbing their mouth that he was going to replace Kyvat . It seems he has put in the dog house permanently with Helmut


Sainz will not stay at Toro Rosso
 
Kyvat has been docked a further couple of points on his super-licence following the first lap incident with his team-mate, meaning he now finds himself a mere 3 points away from a race-ban. He had better watch his step over the next few weeks...
 
Trying to overtake your team-mate into Maggots/Becketts is a risky move to say the least. Discretion was surely the better part of valour there.
 
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