Max Verstappen's meteoric rise through the junior ranks is well-known at this point, but it came as a surprise to some observers...
Max Verstappen’s meteoric rise through the junior ranks is a well-known story at this point, but it came as something of a surprise to some observers…
“Silverstone was a great place for winter testing and whenever drivers arrived, you look into your database of drivers and it’s like ‘OK, we’re going to show you some onboard video, who would you like? Verstappen? Norris? [Charles] Leclerc, [George] Russell?’ We had them all. “I’d heard all sorts of things about the way his dad was going about pushing him, but there wasn’t really a lot of chatter about him. Then, all of a sudden, he’s in Formula 1. That was the thing that surprised me.”
With Verstappen earning Red Bull’s approval to be fast-tracked straight from a solitary year in F3 into a Formula 1 cockpit, Howson said he felt Verstappen had been rushed too quickly into F1 and, as a result, had to do a lot of his learning while in the big leagues. “In fact, the only time I did see him in action in F3 was at Pau, when he had an almighty crash in front of me!
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