I wonder why Steve Jones said "this might be the last time I say welcome to the Monaco GP live, so let me say it again..."
Perhaps he's not presenting F1 next year and is moving on? They're losing the best presenter ever if that's the case.
I assume it's more a reference to the fact that Sky have F1 exclusively next year - barring an agreement on a highlights package on terrestrial TV.
Verstappen reminds me of Gilles Villeneuve in a way. Some regard Villeneuve as a great, but to me he was inconsistent, not always quick, accident prone (including the one which cost him his life, and another that cost the lives of a spectator and a marshal) and ultimately only finished above 7th in the championship once (1979 when he was 2nd to his more consistent team-mate, and only 7 points (10 without dropped scores) ahead of Alan Jones who retired from 7 of the 15 races to Villeneuve's 3 retirements!).
Verstappen has got some of the Villeneuve's flair, he too is capable of occasional brilliance, but he's got all of the numerous flaws that Villeneuve had.
He's not going anywhere as Red Bull won't want him to move to a rival team and come back to haunt them, and they won't want to reign in that flair that is his one real quality (he's not blisteringly quick all of the time, and he's not consistent at the moment) but they do need him to have a solid few races to show he can do it.
He should have been challenging for the title this season, but with costly mistakes or incidents on every weekend so far (he was lucky in Barcelona) he's
62 points behind Hamilton after only 5 races and, barring a truly extraordinary race or bad luck on Hamilton's part, that gap will grow considerably more today.
