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Sainz: I can beat ‘new Senna’ Verstappen

Carlos Sainz is confident he can hold his own against his highly-rated teammate Max Verstappen. The pair both made their debuts for Toro Rosso this year, but it is only the 17-year-old Verstappen who is being compared with the sport's greats. 'They say that he is the new Senna,' Spaniard Sainz, 20, said during a visit this week to Rome's Universita Roma Tre. 'But it is very difficult to assess the quality of the drivers in F1 today. 'You can only be compared with your teammate, and Max and I are similar in terms of driving,' he insisted. 'Max is very strong,' Sainz acknowledged, 'and it is true that journalists talk a lot more about him than they about me. 'That puts a little more pressure...
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