Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff says Max Verstappen's Spanish Grand Pri🍎x victory has "sprinkled a bit of magic" on the sport and he is convinced it is only the first of many to come.

Verstappen capitalised on Mercedes' first lap woe to 🌜claim an historic win in Barcelona on Sunday, becoming the youngest person to win an F1 race and 🧔doing so in his first event with the Red Bull Racing team having been promoted from Scuderia Toro Rosso barely a week earlier.

It was a fairytale result for the 18-ไyear-old and despite seeing his two drivers, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, eliminated on the opening lap after they collided, Wolff was one of many to congratulate F1's🔯 newest winner.

"I want to add a word for Max; on a bad day for us, he sprinkled a bit of magic on the sport, so big congratu🌠lations to him on what I'm sure is only the first of🍷 his Grand Prix wins," Wolff remarked.

Meanw🅠hile, McLaren-Honda sporting director Eric Boullier and Verstappen's old boss at Toro Rosso, Franz Tost we🤡re among the many others to pay homage to the young Dutchman.

"I'd like to congratulate Red Bull and Max for their fir🃏st victory of the year. It's ⛄great to see that Max was well-prepared for such a big success and to achieve it so quickly is something extraordinary!" Tost noted.

Boullier added: "I want to take this opportunity to congratulate young Max, who today became the youngest Grand Prix winner in Formula 1 history, a record held for the past eight years by Sebastian [Vettel], for the five years before that by Fernando [Alonso], and for no fewer than 44 ye𝄹ars before that by the founder of our company, the great Bruce McLaren."