Former Formula 1 driver Perry McCarthy has compared being placed into the same team as Max Verstappen as a “graveyard sentence,” given the way the Dutchman ruthlessly out-performs his team-mates. Verstappen has out-qualified a number of partners 90 times in 118 races since his arrival into the Red Bull team in 2016, and a failure to match his pace has led to the dismissal of Daniil Kvyat, Alex Albon and Pierre Gasly in recent years. 2016 and 2017 were the only seasons in which he failed to finish ahead of a team-mate in the championship, but this can be accredited to his inexperience in his first season in Red Bull, coupled with the fact that he joined the Milton Keynes-based team four...
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