With a due date at the beginning of October, it was likely that his mother Sophie Kumpen would have to rely on friends and family for support in the days after giving birth to her first child, rather than husband Jos. Please note: I am not responsible for any security weaknesses in WordPress, hosting provider or other technology I have no control over. Yeah, I liked that I found out more about Max and his family, but other than that it was pretty lackluster and nothing I couldn't have found out from the internet or watching his races.

Additionally, while advertised as a book about Max, it primarily focused on his father and general F1 until the final chapter or two when it broke down Max’s personal story more. From chapter 5 onwards, this is thankfully the case and there is above all a lot of coverage of his karting career, some of which I didn't know much about.There is no financial relationship between this site and any book publisher or retailer however to help keep this site running, F1-nut. It is easy therefore to see how he might have been eager to throw his weight around, with an ego still inflated enough to believe he had been wronged and to ensure he would take umbrage at being asked to share or even vacate a parochial karting track.

About the Author: Mark Hughes is the Grand Prix editor for Motor Sport magazine, provides insight and analysis for the-race. And since that headline-grabbing debut, he has continued to make an indelible impression on the sport, courting criticism and plaudits in equal measure. Hamilton, knowing a crash that ended both their races would hand Verstappen the title, veered away from the corner. He had come up through karting from the age of eight with no shortage of speed, and in 1984 and 1986 he won the Dutch Championship. The first few chapters did go into a commentary on F1’s history in all spheres of Max’s background (his father, both countries he’s associated with) and could have been shorter and more focus on could have been on his F1 career, but it was a decent read overall.Being an unofficial biography has also allowed James Gray to give an uncensored portrayal of Max’s dad, Jos. On the very last lap of the final race of an unbelievably arduous and controversial season, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen nervelessly overtook the seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes to clinch the first place that thrust the young prodigy to the narrowest of victories and to his first World Drivers’ title. Jos meanwhile did attend the funeral along with Max’s sister Victoria, but not the memorial in Housmans. The standard of translation from the original Dutch is perfect, and the book reads more fluently than several F1 biographies I’ve endured in recent years.