Max Verstappen, aged two years and eight months at the 2000 European Grand Prix at the Nürburgring, where father Jos was 13th
"He was driving all the time. He had a feeling with an engine. Didn't matter whether it was a quad bike, an electric jeep - you know, the small things for children - or whatever. He was always busy with driving. Every day he needed to be on it." Max was at a race track near their home in Genk in Belgium with family members. "He was half-crying," Jos recalls. "He was four and a half and there were younger people driving and he wanted to drive as well. So that's when it all started."
"Without my dad I wouldn't be sitting here right now," Max says. "Since he stopped racing in F1, he basically spent all his time preparing me in the best way possible. We grew up together, he was my go-kart mechanic. Driving with the van from Holland or Belgium to all the go-kart races all over Europe.""We still have that go-kart," Jos says. "It is hanging in the Verstappen shop. I remember the first time he got in it.
"But you could see, compared to all the children of his age, he was definitely a lot further than the others. Also, we were competing against children two or three years older and that makes quite a big difference.""It was tough," Jos says, "because the tyres were soft and at the end of the race you could see he was tired. But that showed his character, the way he was competing. He didn't mind if other people were older or whatever, he wanted to win.
"So I prepared ourselves really well and he loved it. Us two in the van going there. He was sleeping all the time. You see a lot of things happening on the track and on the way you talk about the situations to tell him how it should be - really educational about how to race.
andrewbensonf1 How much did Jos and RBR pay you to write that PR piece on Max. Why don’t you spend more time writing about our home grown black “phenomenon”LH44 or does that not fit in with the BBC’s outlook! 🤡
The ego has landed.
He has talent but is reckless.
Brilliant read! 🇳🇱. Max is a very talented young man. He is destined to win the championship, if not this weekend, then in the next couple of years.
Remember when his old man set fire to his own face by opening his visor during a botched refuel … the highlight of his career
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