The Red Bull driver goes into this weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix with a slender lead over Lewis Hamilton who had pointedly noted that the Dutchman’s inexperience could be a factor in deciding the title. Hamilton is attempting to take his eighth F1 title at 36 having scored his first in 2008, but the 24-year-old Verstappen is at the sharp end of an F1 championship for the first time in his career. “I know Max has not won a championship in a long, long time,” he said. “I know what it’s like going for your first championship, and I know the pressures that come with that.”. “It’s not the first time I’ve been in a championship fight.

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