Daniil Kvyat has qualified for his F1 super licence. Energy drink company Red Bull has named the Russian teenager as
Daniel Ricciardo's successor at Toro Rosso for 2014.
But the marque wants to give Kvyat an early start by sending him out for Friday morning practice sessions this weekend in Austin, and the following week in Brazil.
Until now, the only spanner in the works has been the new GP3 champion's lack of a F1 super licence, the mandatory FIA credential needed by drivers in order to participate in official race weekend sessions.
Red Bull therefore arranged a test in a two-year-old Toro Rosso for Kvyat last week at the Misano circuit in Italy, so that he could collect the necessary 300 kilometres of running in front of an FIA observer.
Before the test, Marko told Russia's
f1news.ru: "It's all organised. Everything will be fine."
Indeed, the Red Bull-connected Speed Week magazine reports that Kvyat did the 300km last Friday at a representative race pace.
"We're going to America!" he told his 8,700 Twitter followers the next day.
"I will spend the weekend with the team and participate in the first free practice," Kvyat added in Russian.
Trending news
-
Alfa Romeo Orlen presented in Warsaw the livery of its new car for this season with the code name C41.
The colors of...
-
AlphaTauri became the second team of Formula1 which revealed the livery of this year’s car.
AT02 is the second...
-
McLaren revealed the livery of its new car MCL35M for season 2021 and became the first Formula1 team which presented ...
-
15:56
F1
-
17:44
F1
-
15:00
F1
Replies (0)
Login to reply