Max Verstappen “provoked” by Romain Grosjean in early F1 struggles, remembers Helmut Marko

Helmut Marko has remembered Max Verstappen in a character-building clash with Romain Grosjean.
Max Verstappen (NLD)
Max Verstappen (NLD)

Red Bull’s Verstappen can charge towards a second consecutive world championship, after winning at 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Abu Dhabi 2021, when the 2022 season resumes with the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Belgian Grand Prix this weekend.

His jour🌃ney from prodigious teenager to dominant world champion ha෴s been remembered by Marko, the Red Bull consultant.

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"The impatience to want to drive at the limit eve🍨ry lap has disappeared,” Marko told . “He k✅nows: in qualifying and racing you have to be fast. 

“The mistakes he made in the beginning, like the crashes in Monte Carlo at the same place an💯d that other highlight in Austin where he made a self-chosen pit stop, are gone.

"In Monte Carlo he had his first crash, he was a bit provoked by Romain Grosjean.꧂ If we 𓄧stay with Monte Carlo: he crashed there twice later. Same corner, same place, while we twice had a car with which we could win. 

“That's when I first saw💫 Max in tears. I was also disappointed. If you have such a good car, you should not park it in the guardrail. Fortunately, he lear🎉ned from it and finally succeeded last year."

Max Verstappen (NLD) Red Bull Racing RB18. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 13, Hungarian Grand Prix, Budapest, Hungary,
Max Verstappen (NLD) Red Bull Racing RB18. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 13, Hungarian…

"We deli💧🌱berately chose to throw Max into the deep end," Marko added about the 17 year old Verstappen’s first outing as a Toro Rosso driver during a practice session.

"[The circuit] Suzuka was designed by a Dutchma🦄n, so a circuit for guys, right. That was quite a challenge for Max. But I believed that with him we had found someone who would become the new norm. 

“And in Suzuka we got the confirmation of what I already knew: Max didn't do anything wrong ܫin that training, was competitive from the first mo🗹ment he got into a Formula 1 car.

"At t𝓰he age of sixteen he signed his first Formula 1 contract. It was clear that he had to gꦬrow as a personality. 

“He was still a child and you still had the predominance of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:[his father] Jos Verstappen at the time. 

Max Verstappen (NLD) Red Bull Racing with his father Jos Verstappen
Max Verstappen (NLD) Red Bull Racing with his father Jos Verstappen

“But that actually developed in parallel: the more independent Max became, thওe more Jos withdrew. In the beginning, this was not always an easy process. Max had two technical briefings: first with the team 🐟and then with Jos. Something like this cannot continue to go well.

"He developed his own opinion relatively quickly and expressed himself very clearly in interviews. I﷽t's a Verstappen, isn't it. If he doesn't like ꩲsomething, he says so.”

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