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How Verstappen won Spain 2016
t's not often that a Formula 1 driver's maiden race win arrives completely out of the blue, but the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix produced such an occasion for Max Verstappen. Driving a front-running car for the very first time, and barely six months on from his 18th birthday, the Dutchman, thrust into a prized Red Bull seat just one week earlier, became F1's youngest race victor, on a day of stunning drama at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya. Much of that drama - and nearly all of the controversy - was caused by the mutually-destructive first-lap Mercedes collision between Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton. Inevitably, that clash created the more immediate post-race headlines, but Verstappen's...
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