The Russian driver Daniil Kvyat was more ordinary, while former his team-mate Pierre Gasly at Formula 1 team Alpha Tauri produced unquestionably the shock result of the 202 season with his Italian Grand Prix victory.
“I feel like I improved as a driver in 2020. Sometimes circumstances fell not always in my favour this year. Some points that should have been scored weren’t scored due to different reasons, sometimes under my control, but most of the times out of my control.” Kvyat said.
“All in all, there were some really strong races which I’m really grateful for. It’s always good to have these races and I know that myself, I learned a lot.
“Also working with Pierre was very interesting. He’s been performing extremely well this year, and it was interesting to see why he was doing that and I managed to understand a few things for myself also.” Kvyat added.
Kvyat raced for F1 teams Red Bull and Toro Rosso at different times between 2014 and 2017. The 26-year-old driver finished the 2020 F1 world championship in 14th place with 32 points.
“Maybe a few years ago, situations where I would get lost, I kind of kept my head up and kept going. I’m more mature, a lot colder in difficult situations; especially when the car wasn’t suiting me in the beginning of the year,” Kvyat said.
“I didn’t give up and I kept working with my engineers, trying to improve it. And now we see through the year it’s always been a better, more competitive performance.
“It’s always a constant evolution and I’m really happy that I managed to do a good step this year also, and I know that in the future, if another opportunity will present itself, I’m definitely in a better place.” he added.
Kvyat lost his seat after Japanese auto racer Yuki Tsunoda signed a contract with Alpha Tauri to race in the 2021 season.
