The choice could have raised eyebrows for some on the time, on condition that the then 18-year-old Verstappen had solely 24 Grands Prix beneath his belt. However the Dutchman shortly confirmed why the squad had put their religion in him by taking a sensational win upon his debut on the Spanish Grand Prix, making him the youngest driver to ever take an F1 victory.
For Verstappen the remainder is historical past, having gone on to assert 61 wins thus far en route to a few World Championships. Kvyat, in the meantime, remained with Toro Rosso earlier than being dropped after the 2017 United States Grand Prix. He later made a shock return to the workforce in 2019, the place he stayed for a two-year stint forward of his second exit from the grid on the finish of 2020.
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Schumacher/Gachot/Moreno at Jordan/Benetton, 1991
Eddie Jordan was confronted with fairly the dilemma in the summertime of 1991 when certainly one of his drivers, Bertrand Gachot, was handed a jail sentence following an altercation with a London taxi driver, leading to him being unable to compete within the upcoming Belgian Grand Prix.
Whereas Jordan had initially wished Stefan Johansson within the automotive, he finally went for a rookie by the identify of Michael Schumacher. The younger German had been competing in sportscars, and as such an F1 check was shortly organized for him only a few days earlier than the race at Spa.
That lack of expertise didn’t hurt Schumacher, who outqualified veteran workforce mate Andrea de Cesaris to line up a powerful P7 on the grid. And whereas his race was shortly over – the Jordan 191’s clutch giving out after only some metres – the general weekend was sufficient to trace that Schumacher had one thing particular.
