{"id":22348,"date":"2014-06-22T07:23:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T11:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22348"},"modified":"2014-06-22T07:23:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T11:23:31","slug":"kvyat-hopes-growth-spurt-now-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/kvyat-hopes-growth-spurt-now-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Kvyat hopes ‘growth spurt’ now over"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniil Kvyat has his fingers crossed his growth spurt is over.<\/p>\n

\"Daniil-Kvyat-2\"A cursory look at the Russian’s formative career, including his GP3 title last year, shows that the then lanky teenager was 175cm tall.<\/p>\n

But other, perhaps more up-to-date F1 resources are showing the impressive Kvyat at 180cm — the 5cm difference meaning he is either an average 5 foot 9, or a quite-tall 5 foot 11.<\/p>\n

Dr Helmut Marko, in charge of Red Bull’s driver development programme, has been quoted as saying the young Russian is indeed growing very quickly.<\/p>\n

It has raised fears Kvyat might keep growing and hurt his career by no longer fitting easily at the wheel of today’s F1 cars.<\/p>\n

“Of course yes,” he told Speed Week, “I am one of the taller drivers.<\/p>\n

“But there were others taller than me in the past, like Mark Webber and Gerhard Berger.<\/p>\n

“I have had a growth spurt, but it’s over now, I think,” Kvyat added.<\/p>\n

Marko has also suggested that Kvyat, while clearly the standout surprise among the latest F1 rookies, has been lucky to make his debut in 2014 rather than perhaps a year earlier.<\/p>\n

“Daniil Kvyat is a very good driver,” he told the Guardian.\u00a0 “But he’s young and if he jumped in last year’s car he would not have finished a grand prix without being completely exhausted.<\/p>\n

“Now he can finish because the demands are so much lower,” Marko added.<\/p>\n

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Daniil Kvyat has his fingers crossed his growth spurt is over. A cursory look at the Russian’s formative career, including his GP3 title last year, shows that the then lanky teenager was 175cm tall. But other, perhaps more up-to-date F1 resources are showing the impressive Kvyat at 180cm — the 5cm difference meaning he is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[4670,1628,5262,5340,258,165],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22349,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22348\/revisions\/22349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}