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Verstappen boss denies F1 cars too easy to drive

Franz Tost has hit back at claims today's F1 cars are too easy to drive. In 2015, the Toro Rosso chief will be working with the sport's controversial new driver Max Verstappen, who at 17 is easily the youngest rookie in the sport's history. 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve has denounced the young Dutchman as a "child", and his impending grand prix debut an "insult". "It seems that anyone can drive an F1 car (now), while in my father's day the drivers were considered heroes at the wheel of almost impossible monsters," he told Italy's Omnicorse. A former Toro Rosso driver, Jaime Alguersuari, agrees, saying that the latest generation of F1 car has made the...
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