Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies has revealed that he was tasked with making sure no other 17-year-old driver could enter Formula 1 after Red Bull's Max Verstappen was awarded his in 2014.

Before his job with Racing Bulls, Mekies was part of the FIA as a safety director nearly a decade ago.

The Frenchman admitted that his first job given to him by then FIA president Jean Todt was to reform the super licence process, to stop anyone repeating Verstappen's controversial entry to the sport.

"I reached the FIA just as Max got his Super Licence at 17, and the very, very first thing Jean Todt, the president of the FIA at the time, asked me to do, he said: 'Well, you know what, this young kid, Max, he just got his licence at 17 years old. That's ridiculous'," said Mekies.

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