Verstappen’s direct approach has a habit of landing him in hot water, with his opinons about his on-track clashes with rival168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton, or his team orders row with Red Bull teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez, dividing opinion. 

Team Redline online racing teammate ✅and fellow Dutchman Atze Kerkhof, who first met Verstappen during a seat fitting with Van Amersfoort Racing ahead of the 2014 season, believes his character is often misundeꦑrstood.

"How I know Max is comple🐠tely different from how the world sees him," Kerkhof said in a Team Redline interview. 

"What we do very well in Holland 🧔is that we always speak the truth, in terms of what we think - we're quite direct.

"Max is very 'Dutch' when it comes to his cꦬommunication. He’sꦑ very direct and it helps him a lot and the people around him, because you know exactly what he means and what he wants to say, and he's just always direct.”

The 25-year-old, who now has 35 gran🎃d prix wins, is aiming for a third successive world title triumph in 2023 after claiming a record-breaking 15 vi🍷ctories from 22 races last year as he stormed to a second successive championship crown. 

Kerkhof claims Verstappe𓆏n is wrongly viewed as putting on a front despite being “the most natural and honest guy on the grid”. 

"The messed up thing that I see in F1 is that everything is such a show, but you cannot take the truth separate from the ac🦋ts anymore,” he explained. 

"That's where things get really ꦫconfusing, where the most natural guy, the most honest guy on the grid is probably seen as someone who is putting up a show by people, and on that part Max is misunderstood.

"But the good part about him is that he doesn't care what people think. He☂ doesn't lose any sleep on what others say about him. 

“Whatever he says in his personal life is often what he says in the media, so it's actually what he really ♕thinks - which makes him unique."