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Was Red Bull wrong to choose Kvyat?

Thanks to Sebastian Vettel's shock departure, Daniil Kvyat steps up to the frontline in 2015. EDD STRAW asks whether Jean-Eric Vergne should have been chosen instead

When Daniil Kvyat's shock promotion to Red Bull's A-team was revealed, tagged onto the bottom of its press release about Sebastian Vettel's departure at the end of the season, the complaints began immediately.

The argument against the 20-year-old Russian landing the seat was that he had scored just eight points compared to team-mate Jean-Eric Vergne's 19 (the Frenchman subsequently added two more for ninth at Suzuka), so surely this is another Red Bull 'injustice'?

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