Daniil Kvyat

Daniil Kvyat (born 26 April 1994) is a Russian former racing driver. Known as "the Torpedo" due to his aggresive driving style, Kvyat debuted for Toro Rosso in 2014, breaking the youngest point scorer record, soonly broken by Max Verstappen in 2015. After a soild season, Kvyat was promoted to Red Bull to replace Sebastian Vettel, scoring his first ever podium and beating teammate Daniel Ricciardo. However, after a series of controversial crashes in 2016, he was demoted to Toro Rosso and after a poor 2017, he was left without a ride. In 2019, he returned to the team and scored the team's second podium, the first since 2008. In 2020, he scored a further podium for the renamed Alpha Tauri team in Abu Dhabi. 2021 was equally brilliant, with a pole position and a podium in Australia and a 3rd place in Abu Dhabi, establishing himself as one of the best of the rest.

However, in the next season in 2022, in Spa, Kvyat was involved in a huge accident, damaging his spine and becoming disabled for the rest of his life. This ended prematurely the career of the best out of the 4 -soon 5- Russian drivers to enter Formula 1 (including the now renamed Formula Earth). After his retirement, Kvyat became involved with local natural gas company Gazprom and has attempted to create his own Formula Earth team alongside former Russian Time team members, but as of now they have failed to enter the series.