Jacques Villeneuve has taken serious offence to Niki Lauda's comparison of Red Bull driver Max Verstappen to his own father Gilles. Before last weekend's Canadian Grand Prix, Mercedes' non-executive chairman lashed out at Verstappen for being too accident-prone in recent races. "I would ask him 'How many times do you want to do the same thing?'", Lauda had told the Bild newspaper. "It's a difficult balancing act and I know it's not easy." Lauda then also compared the "hot headed" Verstappen with another fiery and formidable talent from the history of Formula 1, Gilles Villeneuve. But if that was meant to be any sort of compliment to either party, then it...
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