Max Verstappen Deserves Guidance, Not Criticism, After Monaco Grand Prix Crash

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Published: June 5, 2015

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If you were to create the perfect Formula One driver for the 21st century, the final result would most likely resemble Max Verstappen, who's fast becoming a hybrid of two of the finest talents of the modern era, Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen.

The Lewis part you see most days, if not every time the light at the end of the pit lane changes from red to green: blisteringly quick, adventurous, imaginative and brave in wheel-to-wheel combat and able to manipulate his machinery.



The Kimi element, in contrast, is slightly less obvious. 

Although he is much chirpier than Raikkonen, Verstappen possesses the self-assurance and steeliness that over the years has made the Finnish driver a cult hero among F1 enthusiasts, allowing him to be unruffled and unfazed by all around him in the often draining, egotistical bubble of the paddock.

It is an advantageous trait to have in any case, but as the youngest ever F1 driver competing in his rookie season—when everything he does will be directly linked back to his 17 years—it is perhaps more important than anything he will achieve on the track in 2015.



We have seen it already this season following his run to sixth in qualifying at the Malaysian Grand Prix and his overtaking exploits in China, when the general focus was not quite on what he had achieved but what he had achieved for his age.

The backhanded compliments on the days when Verstappen succeeded meant there was always going to be some kind of furore when he finally made a mistake, but even those around the Dutchman may have been taken aback by the explosion that followed his collision with Romain Grosjean at Sainte Devote in the Monaco Grand Prix.



In the space of one afternoon, one split-second incident, Verstappen went from being mature beyond his years to being too big for his racing boots, such was the outrage over his first notable e...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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