Toro Rosso teen Daniil Kvyat could be in for a "massive shock"
Thursday 24 October 2013 15:46, UK
In the week when Toro Rosso announced the promotion of teenager Daniil Kvyat to a race seat, Jenson Button has admitted that he wasn't ready for F1 when he made his own debut back in 2000.
Kvyat is placed second in the current GP3 standings and has also raced F3 this season. He made his F1 debut during July's Young Driver Test at Silverstone, completing 22 laps for Toro Rosso. "The best thing for a young driver, I personally feel, is to have a good career in lower formulae and spend time at a Formula 1 team, experiencing what a driver will go through on a race weekend - because he's going to get a massive shock when he goes to Melbourne," Button added. "He might be great and none of us will be talking about this again. And hopefully he will, for his sake. "But it can also kill a career."