Lewis Hamilton warned Max Verstappen ‘has grown’ as star copies world champion

“What Lewis Hamilton has been doing all year, you can now hear Max doing it for the first time.

“I loved that he said: ‘We shouldn’t look at Mercedes, we’re going to drive our own race’. This shows how he’s grown.”

Verstappen, while only 23, has been around F1 for a while.

He made his first appearance in the sport back in 2015, finishing 12th in the standings, before then managing a top-five finish the following year.

In 2017 he finished fifth, before then climbing two places in 2018.

And he’s since managed back-to-back top three finishes, though admittedly failed in his quest to dislodge Hamilton at the top of the standings.