Max Verstappen “provoked” by Romain Grosjean in early F1 struggles, remembers Helmut Marko

Red Bull’s Verstappen can charge towards a second consecutive world championship, after winning at 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Abu Dhabi 2021, when the 2022 season resumes with the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Belgian Grand Prix this weekend.
His jour🌃ney from prodigious teenager to dominant world champion ha෴s been remembered by Marko, the Red Bull consultant.
"The impatience to want to drive at the limit eve🍨ry lap has disappeared,” Marko told . “He k✅nows: in qualifying and racing you have to be fast.
“The mistakes he made in the beginning, like the crashes in Monte Carlo at the same place an💯d that other highlight in Austin where he made a self-chosen pit stop, are gone.
"In Monte Carlo he had his first crash, he was a bit provoked by Romain Grosjean.꧂ If we 𓄧stay with Monte Carlo: he crashed there twice later. Same corner, same place, while we twice had a car with which we could win.
“That's when I first saw💫 Max in tears. I was also disappointed. If you have such a good car, you should not park it in the guardrail. Fortunately, he lear🎉ned from it and finally succeeded last year."

"We deli💧🌱berately chose to throw Max into the deep end," Marko added about the 17 year old Verstappen’s first outing as a Toro Rosso driver during a practice session.
"[The circuit] Suzuka was designed by a Dutchma🦄n, so a circuit for guys, right. That was quite a challenge for Max. But I believed that with him we had found someone who would become the new norm.
“And in Suzuka we got the confirmation of what I already knew: Max didn't do anything wrong ܫin that training, was competitive from the first mo🗹ment he got into a Formula 1 car.
"At t𝓰he age of sixteen he signed his first Formula 1 contract. It was clear that he had to gꦬrow as a personality.
“He was still a child and you still had the predominance of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:[his father] Jos Verstappen at the time.

“But that actually developed in parallel: the more independent Max became, thওe more Jos withdrew. In the beginning, this was not always an easy process. Max had two technical briefings: first with the team 🐟and then with Jos. Something like this cannot continue to go well.
"He developed his own opinion relatively quickly and expressed himself very clearly in interviews. I﷽t's a Verstappen, isn't it. If he doesn't like ꩲsomething, he says so.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything♏ from American sports, to football, to F1.