Fans ask the questions to… Daniil Kvyat

Words: James Roberts

While Daniil Kvyat is being ushered from the back of the Toro Rosso garage, he reflects on the last time he sat down to answer our readers’ questions. It was at the end of the 2014 season, in the dusk of the Abu Dhabi paddock, when he’d just finished his first year with Toro Rosso. Back then he was a burgeoning young racer with a bright future. Ahead of him lay the promised land of a drive with the senior Red Bull team – justification for a man of his obvious talents. That promotion duly came in 2015, but was followed a year and a bit later with the very public demotion to Toro Rosso when he was replaced by Max Verstappen.

Mark Webber once remarked that the order of these question cards is deliberately arranged. Start with the easy ones and then make them increasingly harder. Well, the truth is that they appear in random order. To prove this to Daniil, we shuffle them in front of his eyes. We’re definitely not hiding the tricky ones until the end…