Confirmed: Toro Rosso retains Jean-Eric Vergne for 2014, and brings in Daniil Kvyat as his team-mate

In the most surprising news of the season that happened on Monday evening (21/10/13), it has been confirmed that Toro Rosso have retains Jean-Eric Vergne and signed Russian GP3 championship contender and European F3 driver Daniil Kvyat as their drivers for the 2014 Formula 1 season.



This would be the most surprising news of the season because it was mostly rumoured since Monza when the news that Daniel Ricciardo will replace Mark Webber at Red Bull Racing, and that António Félix da Costa will get the Toro Rosso seat alongside Jean-Eric Vergne. But, the news of Daniil Kvyat getting the Toro Rosso drive is possibly the most shocking news of the season in my opinion. Also, he could win the GP3 championship at Abu Dhabi in a weeks time before driving for Toro Rosso next season.

Despite the young Russian is only 19 years old. This is not the first time that Toro Rosso done a shocking move to put a teenager in one of their Formula 1 cars, back in 2009, when Toro Rosso sacked Sébastien Bourdais and replaced him with Jaime Alguersuari just before the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix aged 19, despite winning the 2008 British F3 championship and having no testing experience in a Formula 1 car. Also back in 2007, when once again Toro Rosso sacked Scott Speed and replaced him with Sebastian Vettel just before the 2007 Hungarian Grand Prix aged 19 and the rest is history with Vettel's carrer.

As for Scuderia Toro Rosso and Red Bull, for them keeping Jean-Eric Vergne for another season is a very good decision for at least another season in my opinion, despite he missed the opportunity of driving with Sebastian Vettel at Red Bull next season.

Anyway, good luck for both Jean-Eric Vergne and Daniil Kvyat next season at Toro Rosso.

End of post for now, new post soon, bye.