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 th🥃an Jaime Alguersuari - who prev▨iously held the record - in 2009.

Verstappen would move up to Red Bull in 2016, takinꩵg his firstﷺ victory on debut at the Spanish Grand Prix.

Since then, Verstappen has enjoyed a plethora of success, winning three world titles, 5𒁏3 races and 97 podiums.

At the time, given his age and lack of single-seater experience, the decision to sign Verstappen was heavily criticise💮d.

Spe🌌aking on the , Tost - who wil🍬l leave F1 after this weekend’s race in Abu Dhabi - spoke about Verstappen and the decision to sign him.

“Then of course Max [Verstappen]. Max because of his unbelievabඣle 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 take someone who doesn’t even have a driver’s lic♛ence?

“And I said, 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 decision.

“This unbelievable natural speed,♐ you could seℱe, 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 ra♏ce at the Salzburg R👍ing in similar conditions and he was also two, three seconds faster than the rest.

“And🌱 then this is important for me, I want to see 🃏what a driver is doing in our car.”