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Red Bull juniors

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Five years ago, Red Bull had three promising young drivers on its books who were looking to break in to Formula One. Daniel Ricciardo was racing in World Series by Renault but still a year from his debut with HRT, while Carlos Sainz and Daniil Kvyat were racing together in the Formula BMW Pacific series, with the three of them pictured here together in Sepang. Looks like they were worth backing...

Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.