F1 2015 Head-to-Head: Daniel Ricciardo vs. Daniil Kvyat at Red Bull

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Published: January 30, 2015

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On paper, the battle between Daniel Ricciardo and Daniil Kvyat at Red Bull this season looks lopsided.

Ricciardo is entering his fifth season of Formula One, and he scored three victories in 2014, thoroughly beating four-time defending world champion Sebastian Vettel in the process.

Kvyat, meanwhile, has just one year of F1 race experience, and much of it was spent battling Lotus and Sauber at the back of the midfield. The Russian's best finish in his rookie year was ninth, in Australia, Great Britain and Belgium.

But let's look at this team-mate battle from a different angle. Which driver does the following describe? He had plenty of success in the junior formulas before gaining valuable F1 experience with Toro Rosso. He was then selected—somewhat surprisingly—to replace a multiple grand prix winner who was leaving Red Bull.

Well? That could be either Ricciardo or Kvyat—and that is the point.



Last season, Ricciardo—who had never finished higher than seventh in an F1 race—versus 39-time race winner Vettel seemed like a huge mismatch...and it was. Just not in the way we expected it. Ricciardo outscored Vettel 238 to 167 and beat the German champion in 11 of the 14 races they both finished.

Now, the racing boot is on the other foot, as it were.

In 2014, the bulk of the pressure and expectations were on Vettel, not Ricciardo. With Vettel now at Ferrari, Ricciardo takes on the leadership of a team with a massive budget and on-track expectations to match.



Could Kvyat be the Daniel Ricciardo of the 2015 season, shocking a more experienced team-mate?

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner thinks so. Speaking to reporters earlier this week, per Reuters' Alan Baldwin, he said of Kvyat:

Sure, he's a little bit rough around the edges. He's only done 19 grands prix so far, but his commitment, speed and...
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