Analysing Daniil Kvyat’s Toro Rosso F1 Move: Is the Russian Too Young for 2014?

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Published: October 22, 2013

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The announcement from Scuderia Toro Rosso that 19-year-old Daniil Kvyat will replace the Red Bull-bound Daniel Ricciardo next season raised the predictable eyebrows and drew the expected criticisms.

Red Bull has long been driven by the appeal of the short-term facet of results, and this encapsulates a problem that is present through motorsport—especially the single-seater ladder.

When ability is determined by the results of a driver, circumstance is ignored. The journey to F1 and the time spent in junior formulae that goes with that is all about gaining experience and becoming better prepared.

Kvyat beat Formula Renault 3.5 race winner Antonio Felix da Costa to the seat, a driver who many though was a shoo-in to graduate to F1.

Da Costa had suffered a troubled 2013 but has proven himself to be a calm, intelligent and devilishly quick racing driver. He had everything in his locker apart from the one thing the sport’s culture of short-term development craves most—form.

Questions have been asked for a while about whether Red Bull would choose to put a driver who had been beaten by two McLaren juniors (one, Stoffel Vandoorne, a rookie) to the title he had almost been expected to walk away with.

But Da Costa’s suffered a variety of technical problems this year, and even the best driver in history cannot win a championship if the car breaks down mechanically while his rivals continue to pick up points.



 

Is Age Just a Number?

It was understandable that Red Bull’s bypassing of da Costa was met with disapproval. In terms of overall development, he is the best prepared junior driver.

But does that mean we should write Kvyat off? Of course not. He has raced a dual programme this year in both GP3 and European F3, is a race winner in both, an impressive achievement in itself, and is challenging for the title in t...
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