JENSON BUTTON has warned Lewis Hamilton that Max Vertsppen will be fired up to beat him to the Formula One World Championship this year. Michael Masi had initially indicated lapped cars between Hamilton and Verstappen would stay in their formation, only to change his mind, resulting in the former to claim that the race ‘has been manipulated’. Hamilton’s former McLaren team-mate Button has now declared that Verstappen will have a point to prove to show he’s a deserving world champ after Masi’s termination. “It’s kind of a world championship he has won, but I’m sure he wants to go and win another so he can go ‘look, it wasn’t down to Michael Masi’.

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