“He was unconsciously working on it,” Jos Verstappen gives an insight on the ‘instructive education’ provided to Max Verstappen
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Jos Verstappen has had a lot of influence on Max Verstappen during his life as a racing driver. We have always seen them discuss strategy, driving style and much more every time the reigning world champion gets a breather from his hectic schedule or even sometimes on his way to training. The Dutchman’s father has been an influential figure in the development of Max Verstappen ever since his childhood.
Max Verstappen is one of the most talented drivers current present in the sport. But this impeccable driving style hasn’t been easy to come. The Dutchman devoted his early life grinding it out on the racing track at the age of 4. The credit for this has to go to his father, who acknowledged the importance of getting the basics right at the grassroot level.
But, it’s one thing to be this up and coming youngster in the sport and it’s something absolutely different to be able to deliver at the grandest stages of all across Europe. We have seen a lot of top notch drivers enter the F1 world and quickly disappear into oblivion. To make sure that it doesn’t happen, Jos Verstappen travelled across Europe to provide Max Verstappen a taste of the most challenging circuits.
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This has to be one of the major reasons behind the fearless attitude of Max Verstappen. Jos Verstappen in his recent interview revealed the reason behind his gift of immediately getting up to speed on any circuit and any set of tyres. He said, “The pressure was not on, but I told him. Max was then unconsciously working on it.“
Jos Verstappen might be the harshest critique of his son at time but he also defends him with al his life. After the Monaco GP, Jos Verstappen blasted Red Bull saying, “The championship leader was not helped in that sense by the chosen strategy. It turned completely to Checo’s [Perez] favour.”
“That was disappointing to me, and I would have liked it to be different for the championship leader.”
We have been blessed to see a complete product like Max Verstappen at the peak of his abilities, who shook up the paddock ever since he entered F1. Huge portion of credit needs to go to Jos Verstappen to make sure that he was learning to become the best in the right possible manner.
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