Kvyat in numbers
202 official points · best championship finish: 7th in 2015
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2.7% of races
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1.4% of races with Toro Rosso
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9.5% of races with Red Bull
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Daniil Kvyat reached Red Bull at 21 and beat Daniel Ricciardo in their first season together. A Russian born in 1994, he made his debut in 2014 with Toro Rosso and the following year moved up to the senior team. In 2015 he was second in Hungary and finished seventh in the championship with 95 points, three ahead of his team-mate.
The next year began with a podium, third in China, and went wrong within two weeks. In Russia, at home, he hit Sebastian Vettel twice on the first lap, and Red Bull sent him back to Toro Rosso for the following race. His seat went to Max Verstappen, who won in Spain that very Sunday.
At Toro Rosso he did not recover his level and at the end of 2017 he was out. He spent a year as a Ferrari simulator driver and came back in 2019, again with Toro Rosso. In Germany, on a wet track that was drying, he finished third: the team's first podium since Vettel's win at Monza in 2008.
He raced one more season with the team, by then called AlphaTauri, and signed off in 2020. Three podiums across two separate spells, and a career remembered for the weekend he lost his seat.
What if Kvyat had another car?
We took his real attributes and put him in the best car of each era: in a real driver's seat, against the team-mate that car actually had. 30 full seasons in each.
| Car | Team-mate | Finish | Wins | Titles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McLaren1988 | Alain Prost-134 pts | P2.1 | 0.6 | 0% |
| Williams1992 | Riccardo Patrese-96 pts | P3.7 | 1 | 0% |
| Ferrari2002 | Rubens Barrichello-83 pts | P2 | 3.8 | 0% |
| Red Bull2013 | Mark Webber-94 pts | P2.4 | 3.5 | 0% |
| Mercedes2016 | Lewis Hamilton-158 pts | P2 | 1.2 | 0% |
| Red Bull2023 | Sergio Perez-82 pts | P2 | 5.6 | 3% |
| Cadillac2026 · 11th on the grid | Valtteri Bottas-2 pts | P13.7 | 0 | 0% |
The only one who beats him is Lewis Hamilton in the 2016 Mercedes: 158 points clear over a full season.
Ver en españolRating by season
- First season
- 69 2014
- Peak
- 72 2015
- 2020
- 69 AlphaTauri
6 seasons in the database, from 2014 to 2020. Our own rating, from 50 to 99.
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2015
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His team-mates
6 team-mates across 6 seasons. When both finished the race, Kvyat was ahead in 31 of 73; on the grid he started ahead in 44 of 110.
| Year | Team-mate | In the race | On the grid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Jean-Éric VergneToro Rosso · 19 races | 5-6 | 10-9 |
| 2015 | Daniel RicciardoRed Bull · 19 races | 7-6 | 7-12 |
| 2016 | Carlos SainzToro Rosso · 17 races | 2-9 | 6-10 |
| 2016 | Daniel RicciardoRed Bull · 4 races | 1-2 | 0-4 |
| 2017 | Carlos SainzToro Rosso · 14 races | 1-5 | 7-7 |
| 2017 | Brendon HartleyToro Rosso · 1 race | 1-0 | 1-0 |
| 2019 | Alexander AlbonToro Rosso · 12 races | 6-3 | 6-5 |
| 2019 | Pierre GaslyToro Rosso · 9 races | 3-4 | 2-7 |
| 2020 | Pierre GaslyAlphaTauri · 17 races | 5-7 | 5-12 |
The first number is always Kvyat's. A team-mate is whoever started the same race for the same team. "In the race" only counts races both finished, because a retirement says nothing about who was quicker. "On the grid" is the starting position, with penalties already applied.
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