Danill Kvyat still in difficulty

Would 2016 be a nightmare year for Daniil Kvyat ? The holder at Red Bull Racing at the start of the season paid for his poor performances in the first Grands Prix, despite a third place in China, and was demoted before Barcelona from the Milton Keynes team to the sister team Toro Rosso, the same place where he made his debut in 2014.

And faced with the convincing results displayed by his replacement Max Verstappen at the wheel of the RB12, the decision must satisfy the Austrian clan, the Dutch prodigy having won the Spanish Grand Prix before achieving two consecutive second places in Austria and England and a third place in Germany last weekend.

On Kvyat's side, morale seems to be at its lowest, as the young Russian indicated in the Hockenheim paddock. “I’m going through a bad time, and I can’t see the end of it, admits the latter. I feel like I need six weeks of vacation more than three to get a good feeling back with my car. I have no excuse, I don't understand. In this case in F1, we do not survive. »

Since his return to Toro Rosso, the former GP3 champion has failed to get the better of his Spanish teammate Carlos Sainz Jr. So much so that rumors about a possible replacement for the Russian for 2017 were quick to emerge.

It is up to Kvyat to try to demonstrate his abilities from the resumption of Spa-Francorchamps at the end of August, otherwise the seat of the second Toro Rosso, the first logically having to go to Carlos Sainz who has been extended in the Red Bull fold, will be very courted for the next season.

Find the full report and analysis of the German Grand Prix, produced by our special correspondents in Hockenheim, in issue 2074 of AUTOhebdo, available now in digital version and on newsstands.