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?
 
Hahahahahahaha!!!!!! "You cannot drive one of our cars but you can use our Playstation"
I hope he's never on the track in an F1 race again.
 
Ferrari have a rep for picking up drivers who have just been dropped by their rivals. I guess that's how they farm information.
 
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He turns only 24 this year. I hope he gets another shot at F1, he now has the time to work on his mental stability. His rise may have been too fast and the fall too steep.
 
I can't agree, nothing he did in F1 warranted the number of races he actually had the privelige to drive in
 
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He had a better chance than half the grid by getting a shot at Red Bull. There’s many others who earned that shot more deservedly.
 
He’s had his confidence crushed by Dr. Marko. Once Verstappen made it to F1, his days were numbered that pressure didn’t really help his case.
 
His performace was okay at Toro Rosso. If the car is only just within reach of the top 10, it’s naturally going to be more difficult to score points consistently. Vergne had one or two outliers. Otherwise it was fairly equal between the two in the races and Kvyat beat Vergne 12:7 in qualifying.
He also did well against Ricciardo and eventually beat him and they had the same number of DNF’s.
 
What got Kyvat the Red Bull drive was he was able to put these sudden blistering 1 laps and get the car way up the grid like 5th place in Sochi on a Toro Rosso was a phenomenal achievement

JEV was the one badly treated by Red Bull then . Kyvat was basically a punchbag after being dropped from Red Bull
 
So, in the topsy-turvy world of F1 we have a remarkable change in situation, alternative reality becomes reality in a Trumpesque acid-trip of decision making Daniil Kvyat regains an F1 seat.
In this other world I have now become his greatest fan.
Watch this space.
 
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