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Verstappen: Mercedes F1 focus wrong for juniors
Max Verstappen says he chose to join Red Bull's junior programme over Mercedes because the world champions were focused on instant success. In August Verstappen was named as a Toro Rosso driver for 2015 having signed with the Red Bull young driver programme, with him set to become the youngest driver ever to race in F1. Speaking exclusively to Crash.net, Verstappen explained that the F1 seat hadn't been the crucial aspect in Red Bull's offer and said talks with Mercedes showed its primary focus to be on its current dominance rather than developing young drivers. “Well we had some conversations with Mercedes – with Toto [Wolff] and Niki [Lauda] – and it was really good, some friendly...
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