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

Red Bull’s Verstappen can charge towards a second consecutive world championship, after winning at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Abu Dhabi 2021, when the 2022 season resumes with the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Belgian Grand Prix this weekend.
His journey from prodigious tee✨nager to dominant world champion has been remembered by Marko, the Red Bull consultant.
"The impatience to want to drive a💟t the limit every lap has disappeared,” Marko told . “He k༒nows: in qualifying and racing you have to be fast.
“The mistakes he ma𝐆de in the beginning, like the crashes in Monte Carlo at the same place and that other hi💃ghlight 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 stay with ꦉMonte Carlo: he crashed there twice later. Same corner, same place, while we twice had a caꦏr with which we could win.
“That's when I fiℱrst saw Max in tears. I was also disappointed. I🦩f you have such a good car, you should not park it in the guardrail. Fortunately, he learned from it and finally succeeded last year."

"We deliberately 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 ci🥃rcuit] Suzuka was designed by a Dutch♎man, 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 t🔯he confirmation of what I already knew: Max didn't do anything wrong in that training, was competitive from the first moment he got into a Formul🍰a 1 car.
"At the age of sixteen he signed his f꧒irst Formula 1 contract. It was clear that he had to grow as🍎 a personality.
“He was still a child and you still had the predominance of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:[his father] Jos Verstappen at the time.

“But that actually developed in parallel: the more independent Max became, the more Jos withdrew. In the beginning, this was not always an easy process. Max had two technical briefings: first with tꦺhe team and then w෴ith Jos. Something like this cannot continue to go well.
"He developed his own opinion relatively quickly and eꦰxpressed himself very clearly in interviews. It's a Verstappen, isn't it. If he doesn't like something, he says so.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything ꦗfrom Americanꦛ sports, to football, to F1.