16/10/2025 22:10
Max Verstappen has detailed exactly why he believes his father Jos
would make a "really good" team boss at any level of motorsport.
When he is not at Verstappen's side, the elder Dutchman is often
found rallying, with the two trading tips on such machines and on
Verstappen Junior's GT3 racing exploits. Jos himself was an F1
driver, who last raced in 2003 before effectively giving up on his
career to help guide Max through go-karting and eventually into
junior racing before graduating to F1 in 2015. When asked about the
importance of his father's role through his motorsport career ahead
of the United States GP, Verstappen spoke warmly of his father's
expert eye. "I have so many great memories with my dad from when I
just started racing, but for me, what is most impressive is just
his knowledge of racing, tuning and setting up cars and go-karts,"
Verstappen explained to media, including RacingNews365. "What he
taught me from a very young age, that kind of knowledge you can't
describe it, but it definitely made me the person I am today, not
just driving fast in a car, but the knowledge of the car. "I think
he would be a really good team boss, even though I don't think he
wants to be, but he would be a good team boss due to his technical
understanding and how you can make the car go faster. "I still
discuss so many things with him about this for him in his rally car
and me in the GT3 car, and it is very impressive to have someone
like my dad explaining it all and giving you that knowledge. "At
the same time, the years he sacrificed when I started on the way to
F1, basically pausing his career in whatever he wanted to do
outside of F1, and basically giving it 110%, because I've never
seen someone that committed to giving the best opportunities to his
son, not only of providing the best material, but actually tuning
the material himself."
