AlphaTauri's decision to replace Nyck de Vries with Daniel Ricciardo stands out as mid-season driver swaps in F1 have become increasingly rare. But as JBLAutosport explains, this hasn't always been the case ⬇️
In the earlier days of the championship, it was not uncommon for the smaller teams to phase out drivers depending on the money they could bring, while larger teams were not above that either if a driver had been unable to live up to expectations.
Jordan then signed Jean Alesi, who had won the Formula 3000 title in 1989 with Eddie Jordan Racing, from Prost as the French team was circling the drain despite an improvement in form owing to its neat Ferrari-powered AP04 design. Frentzen took Alesi's place at the team in time for the Hungarian Grand Prix, but spun into the gravel on his first outing for the team.
Prost ended up racing with five different drivers in 2001: Luciano Burti replaced the underperforming Gaston Mazzacane at the squad, before the Brazilian's accident at Spa with former Jaguar team-mate Eddie Irvine at Blanchimont prompted the team to sign Czech F3000 racer Tomas Enge.
However, Red Bull was very keen to promote the prodigious Max Verstappen into its 'A-team' as the young Dutchman had been particularly impressive in his first year at Toro Rosso. Kvyat's missteps in qualifying for the Australian and Bahrain races had put him under pressure, but he responded with his aggressive manoeuvres in China to earn a podium - albeit infamously putting Vettel's nose out of joint in the cooldown room.
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