“Without my dad I wouldn’t be sitting here right now,” Max says. “The story is that the Verstappen family is not easy to work with,” he says. “Max was P2 in the qualifying race but he didn’t give up,” Van Amersfoort says. Jos says he “doesn’t know” where Max developed that style. But Van Amersfoort says: “Jos was driving like that, too. Van Amersfoort says: “Max has the rough side of Jos, and the racing skills, but he has the social sides of his mother. “He doesn’t feel the pressure, that’s the thing,” Jos says. And all the teams in the paddock want Max at the end of the day.

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