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Daily Mirror
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Daniel Moxon

Max Verstappen backed to keep getting better as Michael Schumacher comparison made

Franz Tost compared Max Verstappen to seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher as he insisted: "Still we haven't seen the maximum from him yet".

The Dutchman secured his first world championship last season in controversial circumstances as he narrowly pipped Lewis Hamilton to the chequered flag. He is currently on course for a successful title defence, as he enjoys the security of an 80-point lead with nine races left in 2022.

Amid reliability and strategy problems at Ferrari and mistakes made by closest rival Charles Leclerc, Verstappen has been impressively consistent. And AlphaTauri chief Tost, who was the racer's first team principal in Formula 1 in his debut season, thinks his best is yet to come.

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