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. Yeah, I liked that I found out more about Max and his family, but other than that it was pretty lackluster and nothing I couldn't have found out from the internet or watching his races. More than half the book (first 8 chapters) cover Max’s pre-F1 junior career which James Gray manages to cover in good detail.

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. Eventually, Jos chose what he felt was the secure option above all else, signing for Benetton because they offered him a two-year contract rather just a one-year deal. I was warned that it's not just about max and it tends to dive into a lot of topics and information not necessary. Fortunately for him, the case took two years to go through the courts and the controversy did not stop Stewart giving him a drive just a month after the widely reported fracas, replacing the poor-performing Jan Magnussen (whose son Kevin would go on to race against Max in F1). His engineer Gianpiero Lambiase calmly talked him through the engine modes required for the final lap.The official Max Verstappen Formula 1 yearbook 2022 (limited edition) is a stunning photographic overview of the entire world championship with race reports, results and reactions from Max of all Grands Prix in 2022, the year in which Verstappen won his second Formula 1 world title. Between them, they rather succinctly sum up how he was viewed by the racing community, as a strong, dominant character with a boot full of talent but an unfortunate habit of ending races in the wall.

Fortunately for both parents, Max was born 2on 30 September 1997, two days after the Luxembourg Grand Prix. With incredible skills on the track and a legion of travelling Dutch fans, he’s a force to be reckoned with and the one to watch in racing. In 2021, the sport’s journalist released “ Max Verstappen – The Inside Track on a Formula One Star” and following Max’s 2021 world title success, James Gray released an updated edition which covered the 2021 season. obviously since max is a driver there are a lot of terms that if you dont know the sport, you wouldnt get them.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. Jos had been detained in the Dutch city of Roermond after an incident involving his ex-girlfriend Kelly van der Waal.

While Wolff tends to sit at a monitor in the garage, Horner prefers to be up on the pit wall with Adrian Newey, whose xtechnical brilliance has been at the heart of so much success at Red Bull, sitting on his left. Description Description A fully illustrated biography of Max Verstappen, from karting in the junior races at age 10 to his third time winning the world championship at the end of 2023. It was a sudden death situation, the like of which Formula One has never seen and may never see again. Nicholas Latifi, who finished 17th in the World Drivers’ Championship, may never again have such a seismic impact on a world title race.

com, this new Max biography is really just a longer extension of that writing style in a book that will take a couple of reading sessions. 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. His f1 career is mostly described through recaps of every grand prix (information you can have already by watching them back or drive to survive).