While it’s easy to be cynical about the up-or-out nature of Red Bull’s young driver programme and the scars its abruptness has often left, no other enterprise has done more to promote young talent in motorsport.
To assemble an exhaustive where-are-they now on paper of everyone who has been through the system would require something akin to the size of a telephone directory – if such things existed any more. So we’ve passed over those who never made it to F1 but succeeded elsewhere – the likes of Neel Jani, Antonio Felix da Costa, Filipe Albuquerque, Philipp Eng, Alex Lynn, Robert Wickens, and Callum Ilott.
