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Curing karting errors made Verstappen F1 star

Jos Verstappen believes the key to his son Max’s sensational climb to become Formula 1’s youngest winner was the approach the pair had to iron out any driving weaknesses in karting. The father-son alliance has been a close one ever since Max started racing, and Jos thinks it was the way the pair set about improving and working out why things went wrong when he first started that is paying off now. “I think his education as a young boy to get wide information, I spent hours and hours [with him],” said Jos, reflecting on the road that has helped Max become the youngest ever winner in F1. “Every manoeuvre he made, or every mistake he made, we were talking about it, not shouting: but...
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