Jos Verstappen: My own F1 career could have gone better, but Im happy, because what I learned I gave to my son...

Published: Sept. 18, 2019, 3 a.m.

This week\u2019s guest is Dutch, caused a major stir when he first jumped into an F1 car, and has the surname of Verstappen\u2026 but we\u2019re not talking about Red Bull star Max, we\u2019re talking about his father. Jos Verstappen had the same meteoric rise through the junior formulas as his son, culminating in an F1 debut alongside Michael Schumacher at Benetton in 1994. He\u2019d end up making more than 100 Grand Prix starts and scoring two podiums \u2013 although it\u2019s fair to say it was something of a rollercoaster career, and by the time it was over he\u2019d switched his attention to nurturing Max\u2019s prodigious talents.\xa0
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\nOn this week\u2019s episode he gives us the full story, describing in detail how what he learned along the way was vital for helping his son get ahead...