Why Red Bull's Kvyat/Gasly choice was catch-22
Red Bull has offered Daniil Kvyat career salvation at the cost of Pierre Gasly's ascension to Formula 1 with Toro Rosso. Why might that be, and what does it mean for both?
Pierre Gasly has just learned the hard way how tough the business of Formula 1 can be sometimes.
Gasly is Red Bull's coming man on the junior single-seater scene - a champion of Formula Renault 2.0, runner-up to Carlos Sainz Jr in the 2014 Formula Renault 3.5 championship as a rookie, and a serious title contender in GP2 this season. But his most likely route into F1 next year has now been blocked off.
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