Not only this kid can drive, but also good looking

Yes it has been confirmed by Scuderia Toro Rosso, that their reserve 19 year old driver Jaime Alguersuari will replace the outgoing Sébastien Bourdais at this weekend Hungarian Grand Prix.

If so, that would make the young Spaniard, the youngest ever Formula One driver at the age of 19 years and 125 days, breaking the record held by Mike Thackwell back in 1980.

Alguersuari was quoted, “I would like to thank Red Bull for giving me this great opportunity to race in Formula 1. Ever since I started racing this has been my dream and thanks to the Red Bull Junior Programme I will now realise my ambition of lining up on a Grand Prix grid.

I am aware that I’m facing a very tough challenge, because coming into Formula 1 is never easy, coming into Formula 1 in the middle of a season is even harder and doing so without any testing is really difficult.

But already I feel that I am getting great support from the team, who have quite a reputation for looking after rookie drivers.”

It seems to me Toro Rosso have a knack and liking for young prodigal driver. Their other driver is a 20 year old Swiss driver Sébastien Buemi. Also recall last year when Sebastian Vettel was driving for Torro Rosso eh, before moving to RedBull.

Toro Rosso is like a feeder F1 team, a testing ground for these drivers before moving on to the bigger big-boys club of RedBull, Ferrari and McLaren.