Kvyat for the chop mid season?

[tyranical]

Kvyat should be gone imo.

I never thought he was good enough to go to Red Bull which was proven and he is wasting that Torro Rosso seat now, I'm sure a team who needs pay drivers would take him with his Russian backing but that seat would be far better given to their young driver Pierre Gasly who is doing a good job in GP2, shame they dropped Alex Lynn from their young driver programme as he is a future talent and Britain is a bit short of that right now in F1 once Lewis/Jenson retire we'll be left with Jolyon fking Palmer if they don't get someone decent in.

[jamiebae]

tyranical said:

shame they dropped Alex Lynn from their young driver programme as he is a future talent and Britain is a bit short of that right now in F1 once Lewis/Jenson retire we'll be left with Jolyon fking Palmer if they don't get someone decent in.

Unfortunately most of the stand-out British young drivers have jumped into paid drives in sports cars, GTs and DTM leaving just the mediocre pilots with big budgets in single seaters. Sam Bird, Tom Blomqvist, James Calado and Harry Tincknell have all moved on, only Alex Lynn and Dean Stoneman are still in single seaters and are drivers who could reach the top level. The rest are unlikely to get a drive based on talent alone but are reliant on a big fat cheque book (Jordan King for example).

There are some good drivers coming up through the junior ranks but I'm not as close to that as I used to be so I don't know of all of them, but in a few years I expect British F1 will be in a good place again.

[Mr Tidy]

After the latest outing I really can't see Danill Kvyat in F1 next season (which is a shame as he looked pretty promising when he first appeared) - off down the bookies on Monday.....!

[rubystone]

jamiebae said:

Unfortunately most of the stand-out British young drivers have jumped into paid drives in sports cars, GTs and DTM leaving just the mediocre pilots with big budgets in single seaters. Sam Bird, Tom Blomqvist, James Calado and Harry Tincknell have all moved on, only Alex Lynn and Dean Stoneman are still in single seaters and are drivers who could reach the top level. The rest are unlikely to get a drive based on talent alone but are reliant on a big fat cheque book (Jordan King for example).

There are some good drivers coming up through the junior ranks but I'm not as close to that as I used to be so I don't know of all of them, but in a few years I expect British F1 will be in a good place again.

Alex's dad could pay for a drive and to be honest I think that's the only way we'll see him in F1. Dean is a real talent but I think we'll see him settle for a berth in sportscars pretty soon.

[ajprice]

Mr Tidy said:

After the latest outing I really can't see Danill Kvyat in F1 next season (which is a shame as he looked pretty promising when he first appeared) - off down the bookies on Monday.....!

Do you think he'll be in F1 in Abu Dhabi this season?

[AXlawrence]

I think he'd be under serious pressure to stay in F1 at all if Red Bull had another driver ready to step in, but Gasly is the only one. Is he really as good as or better than Kvyat though? Not doing anything spectacular in GP2. Hasn't even won a race yet.

[Norfolkit]

AXlawrence said:

I think he'd be under serious pressure to stay in F1 at all if Red Bull had another driver ready to step in, but Gasly is the only one. Is he really as good as or better than Kvyat though? Not doing anything spectacular in GP2. Hasn't even won a race yet.

Agreed, I can't see Gasly as the next big thing, to be honest I don't really get the hype about Wehrlein either.