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Max Verstappen is a Belgian-Dutch rider born on September 30, 1997 in Hasselt, Belgium, as Max Emiljan Verstappen. Max Verstappen is the son of a former Formula 1 driver Jos Verstappen. He performs under the Dutch flag in Formula 1 on the Red Bull Racing team and is well known for his debut with the Red Bull Junior team in August 2014.
Carier start
Max started karting at age four. It is safe to say that his father had a huge influence on the early years of his career. Although, today the rider in all interviews sought to note that his father never pushed him to racing or motorsport. The child possessed a natural gift and determination, which most children and adolescents do not have. Young Verstappen competed in the mini junior championship of his native province of Limburg (Belgium). He won the Belgian go-kart championship in 2006 when he was only nine years old. And in 2007, Verstappen won the Holland Minimax Championship. In 2009, Verstappen joined the PEX Racing team, the CRG customer team, and won the Flemish Minimax Championship and the Belgian KF5 Championship.
In 2011, Verstappen won the Wsk Euro series in CR, and in 2012 he became a member of the Intrepid Driver program for racing in the KF2 and KZ2 classes. His first experience in a racing car was on the Pembry circuit on October 11, 2013. On January 16, 2014, it was announced that he would make his debut in the Florida Winter Series. On February 5, for the second race weekend, he won his first Formula One race at the Palm Beach International Raceway, and on February 19, he won his second race in the series, Homestead Miami Speedway.
Formula 1 Sauber
In August 2014, he joined the Red Bull Junior team after testing a Formula Renault 3.5 car. He also received an offer from Mercedes to join their pilot development program, and six days later, he was confirmed as one of the Scuderia Toro Rosso drivers in the 2015 season. Verstappen became the youngest pilot to take part in the Grand Prix after the first free practice at the Grand Prix With Japan in 2014, in preparation for a contract with Scuderia Toro Rosso in 2015.
Verstappen became the youngest driver to race in the royal race at the age of seventeen and one hundred and sixty-six days, breaking Jaime Alguessuary’s record for almost two years. In this first race, he was supposed to finish in the points zone, but was forced to stop the race due to engine failure. And after only fourteen days, Max will take sixth place on the starting grid and will finish in the TOP 10, breaking the next Formula 1 record, becoming the youngest pilot to receive points in the individual competition.
Formula 1 Red Bull
Verstappen received three awards at the FIA Award ceremony, as the best rookie of the year, personality of the year and action of the year for overtaking Felipe Nasra in the external turning radius at the Belgian Grand Prix. In 2016, Verstappen began the season at Toro Rosso and finished fifth in the first race of the season in Australia.
Verstappen joined Red Bull at the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix, where he replaced Daniel Quata, who returned to Toro Rosso. After qualifying fourth at the Spanish Grand Prix, he ended up in second position behind teammate Daniel Riccardo in the first round after the famous Mercedes pilots Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg left the race. Thanks to the tactics of two pit stops, he led the peloton and was able to repel the attacks of the most experienced pilot Ferrari Kimi Raikkonen in order to win his first victory in the royal races. He became the youngest driver to win the Formula 1 Grand Prix at the age of 18 years and 228 days.
In his first eight races with Red Bull, he did an excellent job getting six finishes in the test zone, including four times on the podium.
In 2017, Verstappen could not finish seven times in the first 14 races of the season, four times due to mechanical problems, and three because of clashes in Spain, Austria and Singapore. Max won his second Formula 1 race at the 2017 Malaysian Grand Prix, the day after his 20th birthday, ahead of current world champion Lewis Hamilton for leadership in the first laps of the race. He took second place at the next stage in Japan and third place at the United States Grand Prix, but was classified fourth after his overtaking on the last lap Kimi Raikkonen was protested by the commissioners. Verstappen won his third Formula 1 race (and the second in 2017) at the Mexican Grand Prix, ahead of Sebastian Vettel in the first round and leading the peloton until the very end of the race.
In 2018, Verstappen participated in at least one incident in each of the first six races of the season. He took fourth place at the start in Australia, but after the lights went out, he let Kevin Magnussen forward, trying to regain his position, but damaged his car. Then Max turned in the first corner, which Romain Grosjean, Rikiardo and Nico Hulkenberg took advantage of, but he was lucky and managed thanks to the strategy and the cars that left the race to finish in TOP 6. At the next race in Bahrain he had an accident during qualification and started in 15th place.
In China, Verstappen qualified fifth, and by the end of the first round he was already in third place. At the Grand Prix of Azerbaijan, Ferstappen fought wheel-to-wheel with his partner Daniel Riccardo for the 4th place almost the entire race. In Spain, Verstappen was finally able for the first time in the 2018 season to go up to the podium, finishing 3rd behind Mercedes cars, and not allowing Sebastian Vettel to go around himself in the last laps of the race.
In Monaco, it seemed that nothing shines for Max, since he broke his car during the free races, and the team did not have time to restore it in time. He started from the last row of the starting grid and was able to break into ninth place in the narrow streets of Monaco, although overtaking in the estates of the princes Grimaldi is almost impossible.
At the Canadian Grand Prix in 2018, he led all three training sessions and qualified in third place two-tenths of the pole position won by Sebastian Vettel. He finished third in the race and set the fastest lap of the race on lap 65. At the Austrian Grand Prix in 2018, on the home track for Red Bull, he started fourth, passed Kimi Raikkonen and, using the Valtteri Bottas exit and Lewis Hamilton’s unsuccessful strategy, won the fourth race in his career.
