Max Verstappen’s manager Raymond Vermeulen has revealed a comical story that occurred during the Dutchman’s early F1 career.<\/p>\n
Verstappen was handed three FP1 outings late in 2014 with Toro Rosso ahead of his full-time debut with the team the following year.<\/p>\n
His first two sessions came in Japan and USA before his final outing was scheduled for Brazil.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the round from Sao Paulo, Verstappen and Vermeulen had no budget left and were forced to cut corners to pay for their room for the weekend.<\/p>\n
“We had zero budget, and for that reason we took one hotel room for the three of us in Hotel Transamerica in S\u00e3o Paulo,\u201d Vermeulen told FORMULE 1 Magazine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cA crib had been arranged for Max, a sort of stretcher.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Vermeulen and Verstappen’s father Jos went to enjoy a local drink, they irritated the then 17-year-old Max upon returning to the hotel room.<\/p>\n
“He was at our foot end and naturally went to bed on time that Thursday, while Jos and I went for a drink,\u201d Vermeulen stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe returned to the room a little later and perhaps made a little too much noise. Max woke up and asked, ‘Dad, can we keep it down a bit, because I have to drive tomorrow?’<\/p>\n
“How did Jos react? A little along the lines of, ‘Don’t whine, everything will be fine.’ That does show how we did it, we depended on each other. We just had a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen’s manager Raymond Vermeulen has revealed a comical story that occurred during the Dutchman’s early F1 career.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-625297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625297","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=625297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}