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Hakkinen admits he was wrong about Verstappen
Mika Hakkinen has admitted he was "wrong" about Max Verstappen. When Red Bull announced last year that the 17-year-old would be making his debut for Toro Rosso in 2015, Hakkinen said: "In no case is a driver ready for formula one at 17. "Either as a manager or a father, I would never let a driver as young as that race in F1," the former McLaren driver and two-time world champion said in August of 2014. Four races into Verstappen's grand prix career, however, the teenage Dutchman is now also the youngest-ever F1 points scorer and being hailed as a potential new Senna. "I was against someone coming into F1 at the age of 17," Hakkinen told the Spanish sports...
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