The three-time F1 champion’s father h♕as courted controversy for his parenting style and has been forced to dꦗeny that he ever abused him.

But he adm🎶itted hitting his young son many years ago, before a race in England, on th🏅e helmet.

“H💜e needed that,” Jos told while pไointing out that his son went on to win the race.

Jos, an ex-F1 driver wh🍨o was once Michael Schumacher’s teammate, dedicated himself to his son’s aspirations of becoming a driver.

He built engines for Max’s karts and would drive 13 hours around Europe, ferrying🍸 his son to race tracks.

He 𓄧would make Max practice as a child, even if rain forced his race to be cancelled and every💎 other family had gone home.

Max says now: “From a young age, I saw other kids running around, 💧playing, not really thinking about the future.

“But my dad, he had a plan. And 💧I had to stick to the plan.

“Sometimes he thought I was a bit lazy. I definitely 🔥had arguments with my dad about it.”

His fat🗹her detailed a notorious back-story from their past, when he left his young son deserted at a petrol station because heౠ was so angry at him for crashing out of a race.

“He want🐲ed to t✱alk, I didn’t want to talk,” Jos explained. 

“So I said, ‘If ♐you don’t shut up, I’ll send you out.’”

He would go bꦺack to collect his son, but the tale has been held against Jos ever since. He has defended h🐻imself against criticism of his parenting.