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Max Verstappen: The Inside Track on a Formula One Star

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due to a lack of funding or political influence though, or just because he was such a talented karter and thoroughly enjoyed the success at that level, he was content to remain on the karting track until much later. For Max fans, there’s been few English language biographies published and James Gray’s book although not an official biography, still makes for a good entertaining read, particularly if you’re don’t know much about Max’s upbringing. A thorough biography that not only focuses on Max but his parents and their ties to racing and everyone else in RBR like Marko and Mateschitz. Up until about chapter 5, it reads a bit like a fever dream about Formula 1, as very randomly all sorts of things are written about Jos Verstappen, the history of Zandvoort, the emergence of e sports and sim racing, and the father-son relationships of other F1 drivers.

The safety car pulled in with a lap to go and the two mighty drivers were given a minute and a half to sort out the small matter of who would take the world title. It signalled a premature end to the day – but it did not appear to do much to dampen the excitement around the name Verstappen. Hamilton, though, produced the perfect start off the line and surged into the lead, despite running on the harder medium tyre. Max Verstappen je teraz na vrchole, vyhráva takmer všetko, smeruje k ďalšiemu titulu, takže sa hodí. A definitive and intriguing biography of Max Verstappen, Formula 1's superstar, Lewis Hamilton's great rival and the three-time winner of the World Drivers' Championship.Under Belgian law, a financial settlement with the victim can reduce a defendant’s sentence, and sure enough the Verstappens, both of whom were found guilty of assault, got the chequebook out and were handed five-year suspended sentences each. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Formula One is a sport of compromise: reduce downforce for speed on the straights and you will have less grip in the corners; spend more money on a driver and you will have less to develop the car; pit for fresh tyres and be faster or stay out and maintain track position but with slower rubber.

In those teenage years he went from winning national championships in the Netherlands and in Belgium to Continental ones; by the end of 1991, his victories could not be ignored any longer.WATERSTONES’ BEST BOOKS OF 2023: SPORTA definitive and intriguing biography of Max Verstappen, Formula 1’s superstar, Lewis Hamilton’s great rival and the three-time winner of the World Drivers’ Championship. Rapid single-seater gestation: only 12 months elapsed between his first single-seater experience, a Formula Renault evaluation at Pembrey in South Wales, and his F1 test-driving role with Scuderia Toro Rosso (Red Bull’s junior team) in 2014. The early chapters deal with Jos Verstappen (warts and all), Max’s Belgium birth but Dutch racing upbringing, his family life and Jos’ hardcore grooming of Max through the junior Dutch and European karting championships up to F3.

Though things are going well right now, the volatility that led him to a physical altercation with Esteban Ocon in the 2020 Brazilian Grand Prix still appears from time to time when things don’t go his way. It's not a sycophantic hagiography of Max, but a scrupulously impartial assessment of Max as a driver. And as sports journalist James Gray deftly shows, since his headline-grabbing debut victory at the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix, Max has continued to make an indelible impression on the sport, courting criticism and plaudits in equal measure. The prescience of that comment, which turned out not to be optimistic enough when you consider that Max made his F1 debut four years earlier than that, was not merely the exuberance of a new father. When his son found himself in a similar position as the youngest driver on the grid and teammate to the vastly more experienced Daniel Ricciardo, Max did not lie down and accept any suggestion of a role as second fiddle.

He and Kelly, along with a few guests, jetted off to the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao in January to get married by the 11beach.

Abu Dhabi had often been a place they had dominated the racing, but Red Bull had been close enough for Verstappen to pinch pole position on Saturday. Max had just finished fifth at the Hungarian Grand Prix, meaning the party had been going for several hours which could explain it, but the police report records that Jos had pushed his father off his chair and he had fallen against the wall. In between the racing stories, James Gray also rounds out the book by providing some insights into Max’s family, management and personal life developments. I expected to have a lot of f1 content inside of it but actually it starts when he is born and it ends in 2020 at the end of the 2020 season.The story of his life is obviously not up to date considering that his career is still unfolding but it gives a very good idea of where he has come from. Max’s response was an unintelligible cry of pure emotion, the kind that had not been building for just a few seconds, minutes or hours, but for a lifetime. The pair did have a child together; Kelly gave birth to a daughter, Blue Jaye, a half-sister to Max seventeen years his junior, whom he happily welcomed into the family just as he had his little sister Victoria when she came along a good few years before.

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