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Vergne: I'm too old for STR

Jean-Eric Vergne bears Red Bull no ill feeling for the decision to hand his Toro Rosso seat to Max Verstappen, the Frenchman instead joking that he's 'too old' for their junior team.The decision to promote Verstappen, still only 16 and currently in his first season of single-seater racing, in 2015 is the starkest example yet of the trust Red Bull are placing in youth in their quest for the ‘next big thing'.As such, 24-year-old Vergne joins the likes of Jaime Alguersuari and Sebastien Buemi – who he and Daniel Ricciardo replaced at Toro Rosso - in falling off Red Bull's conveyorbelt of talent, even when, in F1 terms, they're barely out of short trousers themselves.Speaking on...
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