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Verstappen didn't want to take his driving test

Max Verstappen was happily driving F1 cars by the time he was 17, but when it came to taking a driving test, he needed some convincing. The Red Bull man became the youngest Formula 1 driver ever when he joined the grid in 2015, driving for Toro Rosso, and it's a record that still stands today. He was so young at the time in fact, that he had yet to obtain his driving license, and says that he wasn't exactly enthusiastic about getting it. Why? Well, despite the nature of his profession, he doesn't like changing gears. 'Yes but not that often. I didn't like it,' he told G-Star RAW in an interview when asked if he'd driven road cars a lot prior to his test. 'We would go to an industrial...
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