Maybe, but Red Bull have never been great at managing public perception of the way they treat their drivers. To the casual observer, this looks like Vettel talks to Hornet and Kvyat loses his seat. At the very least, they should have waited for Monaco to replace him.
You'll never know when you need it.
Whatever hype there is or was about Kyviat seems like much ado about nothing, as he was considerably outperformed by Vergne in his first season. He probably should have never left Torro Rosso at all, come to think of it, as throwing him into a championship team was a lot of pressure for a relative rookie, which he is probably lucky to not have cracked under sooner. This whole debacle just highlights further how poor Torro Rosso's driver management is.
But that's the thing, why not promote Sainz who has obviously more maturity?
Because taking Sainz will attract every team to Verstappen. They will interpret it as Red Bull investing in Sainz for the future, freeing Verstappen up. On a certain level, they are rewarding bad behaviour, but unless they're going to have Sainz and Verstappen trade places later in the year, there's no real alternative.
👍Marko does, he keeps his eye on them
He has done a better season than riccardo last year and did the same highest result this year, sorry there's nothing bad here.
