Daniil Kvyat’s F1 Debut: Do Toro Rosso Have a Future World Champion?

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Published: March 20, 2014

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When he crossed the line to secure 10th place in the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday (which later became ninth after Daniel Ricciardo’s disqualification), 19-year-old Daniil Kvyat became the youngest driver to score a point in the history of Formula One.

It was quite an achievement—but with six of the 10 youngest drivers to score an F1 point still on the grid today, it is now perhaps more a general reflection of the sport’s growing willingness to hand youth a chance to shine than a genuine indicator of natural talent.

More interestingly, Kvyat became the fourth driver to be backed by Red Bull, the standard setters in terms of youth development, to appear in the top 10 in the seven years since Sebastian Vettel, then driving for BMW Sauber, scored points on his debut at Indianapolis.

With Vettel’s subsequent success, winning the 2008 Italian Grand Prix before dominating the sport for four successive years, the German is considered a rather daunting benchmark for every Red Bull young driver program graduate to be offered the chance to join Toro Rosso, effectively Red Bull Racing’s B team.

And although drivers such as the mediocre Sebastien Buemi and DJ Squire (Jaime Alguersuari to you and me)—the other Red Bull-backed drivers to feature on the top 10 youngest point-scorers list—have come and gone without making an impression, there is already reason to believe that Kvyat could emulate Vettel and become Red Bull’s next world champion.



Who would have thought that last October when the little-known Kvyat was announced as Ricciardo’s successor, rather than Antonio Felix da Costa, the overwhelming favourite for a 2014 Toro Rosso seat, in what was initially viewed as a publicity stunt ahead of this year’s inaugural Russian Grand Prix?  

As the first driver to make an immediate jump to F1 from the GP3, the formula in which he be...
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