Sixteen-year-old Max Verstappen has completed his first proper test day as a Formula 1 driver with the Scuderia Toro Rosso team by running a number of laps around the Adria International Raceway in Italy. Ahead of his planned debut in Formula 1 in 2015 as partner to Daniil Kvyat at the Faenza-based team, Verstappen completed 148 trouble laps of the 2.702 kilometre track, and did a mixture of short and long runs as well as running through scenarios and other features the Dutchman might experience during an F1 weekend. The session began on a damp track after overnight rain, and Verstappen’s first few runs, in the 2012 STR7 Toro Rosso, were on intermediate tyres, but conditions improved...
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