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Verstappen admits: "I was too eager at start of the season"

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen has admitted that in the first races of the 2018 season he was pushing too hard, as the Dutchman explained he desperately wanted to get a good result early in the RB14. It's hard to imagine now, as Verstappen's last 15 races of the season have been nothing short of incredible, but the 21-year-old endured a lot of criticism at the start of 2018. In Australia, he spun his car around mid-race, losing several places, while also crashing in qualifying in Bahrain and hitting Sebastian Vettel during the Chinese Grand Prix.  The final straw was in Monaco, when he threw away a potential pole position and a Red Bull front row lock-out by ramming the wall in FP3...
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