Jean-Eric Vergne Shows He Deserves 2nd Chance with New Team in 2015 F1 Season

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Published: September 23, 2014

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Even the most heartless souls in the Formula One paddock must currently feel a degree of sympathy for Jean-Eric Vergne.

Last month, Scuderia Toro Rosso, his team of almost three years, became the first outfit to announce their line-up for the 2015 campaign, featuring the most predictable driver change of what has grown to be known as the "silly season."



Vergne's place at Toro Rosso, it was confirmed, would be taken by Max Verstappen, the highly rated 16-year-old, who is set to become the youngest competitor in the history of the sport when he lines up on the grid, aged 17, at next year's Australian Grand Prix.

Every new beginning is an old ending, and while Verstappen has spent the last few weeks goofing around in ageing F1 machinery—crashing during a street demo in Rotterdam, the Netherlands—all in the name of preparation for his debut, Vergne has had to attend to the more serious matter of trying to rescue his F1 career.



To stand any chance of doing that, the Frenchman—since the Belgian Grand Prix, the first event since Toro Rosso announced their 2015 plans—has had to drive like he has never driven before and, in doing so, catch the eyes of team principals and the wider world in the same way that, for instance, Nico Hulkenberg has done since 2012.

In short, he needed to force teams to run out of reasons not to sign him.

And after two rather anonymous results in Belgium and Italy, Vergne took the first major step toward salvation with what Toro Rosso's official website described as "one of the best drives of his Formula 1 career" in the Singapore Grand Prix.



The nature of the 24-year-old's performance at the Singapore Grand Prix was remarkably similar to the Monaco Grand Prix display of Jules Bianchi, his compatriot, who was hurriedly ordained as a Ferrari world champion in waiting after taking two points with a nin...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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