Jos Verstappen has denied suggestions he “abused” his son Max on the two-time champion’s road to Formula 1. An official documentary about 25-year-old Verstappen’s rise to F1 is just now being released, with the Red Bull driver saying “very close family members” were involved in the project. According to the Swedish newspaper Expressen, one part of the series deals with constant rumours that the way former F1 driver Jos Verstappen raised his son bordered on “abuse”. “There are people who say I’m a bad father because I abused my child,” Jos is quoted as saying. “His father Jos prepared every detail for Max, but Max then had to implement it.

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