Kvyat is now best-known as the Red Bull driver who was replaced midseason by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, who was the youngest-ever F1 driver and race winner💞, and is now a three-time꧋ champion.

But he overcame a major warning from the notori🔯ously opinionated Red Bull advisor Marko before becoming an F1 driver in the first place.

A teenage Kvyat found himself needing to beat 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz during their early days, knowing that failure meant his dre🌳am was o💃ver.

“That’s where I gꦅot Red Bull’s attention,” Kvyat 𝐆said about the FIA European Championship. 

“I went to Varano in Italy for a test in a Formula BMW. ⛄It was with Carlos Sainz and a more experienced driver, Felipe Nasr, so there was a reference for us. 𓃲;

“Helmut Marko was very happy with the test and said, ‘If this is really your first time then 💫⛎it’s very good’.

“We signed the contract after that whe🌌n me and my father came to the G♔rand Prix in Valencia. 

“He💙lmut said, ‘Look, I appreciate your results, I’ve heard a lot of good things, here’s a contract, read it overnight꧟ and come back to me if you want to take it or leave it’. 

“At that point, what do y🅠ou do? You just accept whatever terms are there, as many years as there are, and you sign it.”

Kvyat and Sainz𝓡 were teammateꦺs in the Formula BMW Europe series in 2010.

But the future Ferrari driver was initial𓆏ly the most impressive💮 of the duo.

“Especially at the beginning it was tough𓃲 and I got a call from Helmut,” Kvy♒at admitted. 

“He was like, ‘You know w🐻hat, if you don’t improve next race, I think we’re done here’.

“So I was like, ‘Wow, OK’. 

“I was under𝓀 a𓄧 lot of pressure already. I had to go to Hockenheim and be ahead of Carlos, Helmut told me.

“I said, ‘OK, but please change the ca🎉r to my liking’, because the set-up was the set-up and we jusꦜt ran it. 

“We 🐟did it and it worked very well, I remember I out-qualified Carlos and was ahead in the races. 

“I think that’s what Helmut really liked about me, because he thought, ‘OK, if I can basically tell him he’s going to be fired and he can do t🐈his job, then it’s good’.”

Kvyat and Sainz continued their ascent towards F1 together, inc🐟luding a stint on t♍he support bill GP3 series.

“During the GP3 sea﷽son, Helmut told us, ‘OK, an F1 seat is on the table, so whoever does best will probably get it’,” Kvyat remembered. 

“And that’s when it started to be very serious. I remember the round in Belgium, where we started first and second, almost tied on po🔜ints, and I had to get that win. 

“I won it, Carlos had a crash and I g🅰ot a big lead in the points.

“There was another European F3 championship at the✨ time, with a bit of a differeﷺnt car. 

“Helmut wanted me to also do some races in that series, to do well in both cars, and I started winning there🦩 as well. I remember a race at the Red Bull Ring and it was close to 🃏Helmut, so he came to say hi, and I did three pole positions out of three, so that was a very important step.

“Then Carlos felt it and he said he’d do theꦯ World Series by Renault, just to show Helmut that he could do well in both cars, only that in his case it wasn’t going as well. 

“So, more things were in my favour, I won the GP3 title and I was offered the Toro Rosso contract for 2014 before the last race. It felt like a huge achievem🔜ent at the time, putting my signature on it.”

Marko, now 80, will reportedly pen a fresh three-year contract to remain a key part of Red Bull’s F1🌠 operation.