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 rec💃ord for youngest-ever F1 driver at just 17, two years younger than Jaime Alguersuari - who previously held the record - in 2009.

Verstappen would move up to Red Bull in 2016, taking his fir♔st victory on deb𒉰ut at the Spanish Grand Prix.

Since then♏, Verstappen has enjoyed a plethora of success, winning three world titles, 53 races and 97 podiums.

At the time, given his age and lack of single-seater experi🙈ence, the decision to sign Verstappen was heavily criticised.

Spea꧟king on ✤the , Tost - who will leave F1 after this weekend’s race in Abu Dhabi - spoke about Verstappen and the decision to sign him.

“Then of course Max [Verstappen]ꦬ. Max because of his unbelievable 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 t🥃ake someone who doesn’t even have a driver’s licence?

“And I said, I don’t want to discuss this with 😼you now, come in five y🧜ears and then we can discuss it because then I got tired of defending our decision.

“This unbelievable natural speed, you could see, 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 race at the Salzburg Ring in similar conditions and he was also two, three𓃲 seconds faster than the rest.

“And then this i♍s important for me, I want to see what a driveꦇr is doing in our car.”