18 year old Red Bull's F1 driver, Max Verstappen took a sensational maiden victory
as Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg crashed out of the
Spanish Grand Prix.
Hamilton and Rosberg came together on lap one as the world
champion tried to pass his team-mate, leaving Red Bull and Ferrari to
dispute the race. The teenager held off Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen after
team-mate Daniel Ricciardo took a three-stop strategy.
He made his two-stop strategy work to become the youngest
winner in history.
This is truly a dream come true
Verstappen - only 18 - had Raikkonen within a second of him
for the last 22 laps but did not put a wheel wrong to take his first win on
his debut for Red Bull, following his promotion from junior team Toro Rosso
ahead of this race.
"To win in the first race is such an amazing
feeling," Verstappen said. "My dad helped me a lot to achieve this, this is amazing."
But Ricciardo may feel hard done by after he led the first
28 laps of the race from Verstappen only for Red Bull to pull him on lap 38 and
put him on a three-stop strategy, which was calculated to be the slower
one before the race.
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