Daniil Vyacheslavovich Kvyat (born 26 April 1994) is a Russian racing driver. He is currently competing in Formula One for Scuderia AlphaTauri. He made his Formula One debut in 2014 as a Toro Rosso driver, finishing 15th in the World Championship. He then moved on to Red Bull Racing to partner Daniel Ricciardo for the 2015 season. He scored his first Formula One podium finish at the 2015 Hungarian Grand Prix, finishing second behind Sebastian Vettel. He started the 2016 season with Red Bull, scoring his second podium, finishing third at the 2016 Chinese Grand Prix.
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Daniil Vyacheslavovich Kvyat (born 26 April 1994) is a Russian racing driver. He is currently competing in Formula One for Scuderia AlphaTauri. He made his Formula One debut in 2014 as a Toro Rosso driver, finishing 15th in the World Championship. He then moved on to Red Bull Racing to partner Daniel Ricciardo for the 2015 season. He scored his first Formula One podium finish at the 2015 Hungarian Grand Prix, finishing second behind Sebastian Vettel. He started the 2016 season with Red Bull, scoring his second podium, finishing third at the 2016 Chinese Grand Prix. After the 2017 United States Grand Prix he and Red Bull parted ways, effectively terminating his contract. He spent 2018 as a development driver for ScUDeria Ferrari, before being re-signed by Toro RosSO for the 2019 season. At the 2019 German Grand Prix Kvy at claimed the third podium of his career by finishing third. He became the second Formula One driver from Russia and is the most successful of the three Russian drivers to date. He was runner-up at the 2012 Eurocup Formula Renault 2. 0 Alps Series and 2013 GP3 Series. He also won the prestigious Winter Cup in the KF3 category and then added more victories to his name in the Warno Sarno delle Industrie delle delle Sarniello category. He won the Bridgestone WSK Cup in 2012 and 2013. He has also won several prestigious competitions, including the WSK Winter Cup, Bridgestome Cup and Bridgestow Cup.
He previously worked for Bashneft, initially as a mechanic at the Novo-Ufa refinery, but rose through the ranks to become the financial director of the export division until 1996. Later he branched out and worked with other energy companies, ending up as CFO of West Siberian Energy. He stood for election as a Deputy in the Bashkortostan state parliament. In January 2005, he made his professional debut in motorsports winning his very first race in Sochi. In the 2008 season, he signed a contract with the Zanardi factory team, led by well-known manager Dino Chiesa. He achieved European Championship qualification but switched teams just before the championships started, to join privateers from Morsicani Racing, who used an FA Kart chassis. The Russian defeated his Zanardi ex-teammate Nyck de Vries, who was now a protégé of the McLaren Formula 1 team, in the final heat of the 2008 WSK Trofeo delgé. In their very firstrace, the new partnership produced an excellent result: Kyvat, who had tested the new kart of the new team just a couple of days before the start of the championship, not only won it to the win. However, he achieved European championship qualification but Kvat switched teams before the championship started. In 2009, he won the Winter Cup at the beginning of the 2009 season.
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