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Max Verstappen motivated by Monaco crashes

Red Bull's Max Verstappen insists his crashes at the 2016 Monaco Grand Prix will not affect his confidence heading into this year's Formula One race at Monte Carlo.

Verstappen endured a tough weekend around the streets of the principality last season, crashing out of qualifying, before later hitting the wall again in tricky conditions at Messenet during the race. Later in the year, the Dutchman said he thought his crash-strewn race taught him more than his record-breaking victory that had come two weeks earlier in Spain.

F1's youngest winner is yet to register a classified finish in Monaco, having also retired from the 2015 race following a heavy crash at St.