The Dutch pilot, Sacred World Champion of Formula 1 Sunday, is already a world mark. It’s a whole company that manages its image, the fan club …
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It was barely 10 years old when he dreamed about Formula 1 champion and, Sunday, December 12, in his native village in Montfort, in the south of the Dutch Limburg, hundreds of inhabitants were massaged in front of the screens. local dance to celebrate the victory of Max Verstappen.
It was a few kilometers from there that Sjef lived, the great-grandfather of the new world champion, the one who probably inoculated the automotive virus to his descendants. He managed a breakage where Frans, one of his three children, a sport fan, a hard formed at the Netherlands marines, had fun with his kid, Jos. This one had “a potential” felt those who saw him, youth, pilot his kart.
pushed by his father, supported by his family and some sponsors, Jos Verstappepn, in 1994, was to integrate the F1 Benetton stable. Michael Schumacher’s teammate, he was going to know a sawtooth career but, when, even win two third places and a renowned beautiful in his country.
In 1997, in Maaseik, on the other side of the border, Max Emilian is born from a Belgian mother from a family of entrepreneurs, fans, like her, motor racing. She loves the competition but will give it up to watch over her husband’s career.
Iron discipline
No chance: Max, too, is quickly contaminated by the family virus and quickly becomes a karting champion. He climbs on a machine at the age of 5 and will dazzle with his style, his passion and his sense of trajectories. At age 7, he won his first Junior National Championship.
JOS, separated from his wife in 2008, watch over everything, spending money to launch Max and dream that he realizes the career he could not completely carry out. The workouts are daily, the discipline of iron, a little less severe anyway than the one he has known when Frans locked him if he had committed a driving error. Max, him, will still entrust a day that if no one scares him in the world of the F1 it is because no one shows itself as hard as his generator.
At 16 years old, the young native of Montfort won all the races and stops karting to go to Formula 3. He has, in reality, never lived in the Netherlands but acquires a Dutch pilot license and Find the funding needed to start a competition that, he believes it hard as Iron, then lead him to the Grail.
He accumulates, in any case, the victories in F3 and, in March 2015, less than 17 and a half, he arguers in Melbourne his first Grand Prix of F1. In May 2016, sweeping critics on his excessive passion and his too young age, the kid, who still shares his hotel room with his father, won his first race in Barcelona. The Red Bull stable will then open it.
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