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F1 lacks excitement, Verstappen shaking things up - Stewart
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Jackie Stewart believes Grand Prix racing currently lacks excitement and characters attractive to the public, but that Max Verstappen is helping shake things up. The three-time world champion wasn't all that impressed with the 2016 season, but underlined that Verstappen's rise to prominence was probably the high point of the year. "Other than Verstappen's breakthrough, it was not a very interesting season," Stewart told Swiss newspaper Blick. "Verstappen reminds me of the first races of Mario Andretti, Jochen Rindt and Francois Cevert. They managed to shake things up." While admirating of the accomplishments of Lewis Hamilton or Sebastian Vettel,...
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