Verstappen to sit driving test

Verstappen is too young to have a licence to drive on ordinary roads.

Sainz’s retirement, allied to team-mate Verstappen’s unexpected fourth place, has stretched the championship gap between them from one point to 13 as F1 heads into its summer break, but Toro Rosso remains just four points behind Lotus, in seventh overall.

When asked whether he had a driving license to add to F1’s required Super License by media earlier this month he revealed: “I still don’t have it”.

If we’d just finished fourth at the Hungarian Grand Prix, we’d be absolutely over the moon.

Verstappen himself has said: “I’m doing my lessons in the summer break and then will take my test around my birthday in September”.

“With the F1 schedule it has been hard to fit everything in so I’ve had to wait for the break”.

“It’s not the easiest of tracks to overtake, but we said the same about Monaco and I was able to finish in the points after having started from the pit-lane, so anything is possible tomorrow and we will fight as hard as possible for more points.”

Verstappen became the youngest driver in the history of F1 when he joined the grid at the start of the 2015 season with a tender 17 years and 166 days on the clock.

“Unbelievable, P4 – what a great result, I have no words”, said Verstappen, son of the former Benetton driver Jos, who partnered Michael Schumacher in the mid-90s.

Teenage sensation Max Verstappen is racing against Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button to sharpen his driving skills – ahead of his driving test. But I didn’t give up and kept focusing.

“You can always finish school later …”

“I’m a bit disappointed with the way that we planned the pit-stops”, he confirmed, “One time we had to undercut the Williams, when I was stuck behind him, and we didn’t do it, [but] the cars behind me, both Fernando and Max, did”.