Red Bull took a ruthless decision to dem🍌ote Kvyat just four races into the 2016 season in a seat swap with Toro Rosso’s then 18-year-old Verstappen. 

Kvyat finished on the podium in China but a calamitous home race in Russia - in which he crashed into Ferrari’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sebastian Vettel twice in two 🥀corners on his way to 15th - cost the Russian his d✅rive just a year after he had been given the Red Bull seat. 

Verstappen famously went on to win on his Red Bull debut and become F1’s youngest-ever grand prix victor, while Kvyat remained at the sister team for another three seasons before being replaced by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda. 

Speaking about his Red Bul𓂃l demotion on the Track Limits podcast, Kvyat said: “I felt really betrayed at tha𝓀t moment. It was a stab in the back and that’s life, you get stabbed in the back sometimes you know, it’s normal.

“Now it’s the past. I have another good career in racing so part of me of course is very thankful to Red Bull. The 🥃other part of m♊e is still very unhappy with it.”

Kvyat also claimed that he had rejected a proposal from Ferrari to replace168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Kimi Raikkonen early in 2016.

“I was performing really well,” he explained “And I just scored another podium for the team [at the 2016 Chinese Grand Prix] and then at the time I had a🉐lso a proposal to race for Ferrari to replace𓂃 Kimi. That was going on behind the curtain.

“So it was a ✨very difficult situation also for me mentally to go back from being wanted by Ferrari and having seen the contract and then you go back to Toro Rosso su♛ddenly and then you’re like, it’s not going very well suddenly.”

Kvyat will join Lamborghini for their World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship assault in 2024 after 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:switching to an🉐 Italian racing licence.