At just 16, Verstappen was announced as an F1 driver, joining Toro Rosso alongside 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz for the 2015 campaign.

It meant Verstappen would break the record for youngest-ever F1 driver at just 17, two years younger than Jaime Alguersuari - who previously held t✨he record - in 2009.

Verstappen would move up to Re💃d Bull in 2016, taki🌳ng his first victory on debut at the Spanish Grand Prix.

Since then, Verstappen has enjoyed a plethora of success, winning three 𓆏world titles, 5ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ3 races and 97 podiums.

At the time, given his age and🔥 lack of single-seater experience, the decision to sign Versta൲ppen was heavily criticised.

Speaking on the , Tost - who will le🥀ave F1 after this weekend’s race in Abu Dhabi - spoke ab🍌out Verstappen and the decision to sign him.

“Then of course Max [Verstappen]. Max because of his unbelievable speed,” he 🅠said.

“When we brought him to Formula 1, I remember back some of your colleagues came to me and said you’re totally crazy, how can you ta🎃ke someone who doesn’t even have a driver’s licence?

“And I said,𝐆 I don’t want to discuss this with you now, come in five years and then we can discuss it because then I got tired of defending our de𝓰cision.

“This unbelievable natural speed, you could see, sometimes in Formula 3, I remember back at this wet race at the Norisring, I thought Max was driving on a dry⭕ line because he was two seconds faster than the rest.

“This reminded me also of when168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Michael Schumacher won the Formula 4 race at the Salzburg Ring in similar conditio🐟ns and he was also two, three seconds faster than the rest.

“And then t💫his is important for me, I want to see what a driver is doing in our car.”