Jos Verstappen has hailed his son Max Verstappen and believes that it is only now that people are beginning to understand how special the Red Bull driver really is.<\/p>\n
Jos told Formule 1 Magazine: “Max is increasingly showing how special he is. And he’s still just a sweetheart. I mean it sincerely. Max is very pleasant company. And you know what’s most important: he’s down to earth.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Max walks into the paddock, he still greets those who were there for him ten years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cBelieve me, there are people who walk through the paddock very differently… Max is just himself and very normal.<\/p>\n
“People are now realising how special Max is; thanks in part to him, Formula 1 has gained a bit more life this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause without Max, the championship would be a bit duller.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow it has something extra, because Max is in it. You see that with other teams too: They don’t take Red Bull into account, they take Max into account.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can imagine there’s some nervousness at McLaren, because this might be both drivers’ only chance at a world title.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never know if you’ll find yourself in that position again, right? But it’s like Max says: you either become champion or you don’t. If it doesn’t work out, we’ll try again next year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jos Verstappen has hailed his son Max Verstappen and believes that it is only now that people are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[94915,64,63,817,132040,182778,132043,182779,35119,829,151553,182777,813,835,1737,823,825,806,805,803,804,2333,85],"class_list":["post-325478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-abu-dhabi-grand-prix","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-f1-section","tag-f1-highlights","tag-f1-latest","tag-f1-live-stream","tag-f1-news","tag-f1-standings","tag-f1-table","tag-f1-title-fight","tag-formula-1","tag-formula-one","tag-lando-norris","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}