THE MOTORSPORT LAP
Emotional Max Verstappen still has a lot to learn to be a future champ
The Dutch driver has been widely criticised for pushing Esteban Ocon following on-track clash on Sunday
Red Bull's Max Verstappen is a Formula One champion-in-waiting but he showed in Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix that he still has much to learn, according to Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff. The 21-year-old Dutch driver and Force India's Esteban Ocon, 22, provided the main talking point after the youngsters clashed on and off the track at Interlagos. Verstappen pushed and shoved the Force India backmarker at the scales, the images broadcast around the world, after a collision that robbed him of a second successive victory. "On Max, you can see there is a future champion coming together," Wolff told reporters. "Unbelievable talent and speed and I think once the raw edges are off he will be somebody that will be a world champion one day. In a few years he will look at the footage of today and will maybe have his own opinion whether that was the right behaviour or not. But you can’t accelerate these things, this is a learning process." Already this season Verstappen has had to fend off que...
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