Jos Verstappen: “My own F1 career could have gone better, but I’m happy, because what I learned I gave to my son…”

F1 Beyond The Grid

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4.7 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week’s guest is Dutch, caused a major stir when he first jumped into an F1 car, and has the surname of Verstappen… but we’re not talking about Red Bull star Max, we’re 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’d end up making more than 100 Grand Prix starts and scoring two podiums – although it’s fair to say it was something of a rollercoaster career, and by the time it was over he’d switched his attention to nurturing Max’s prodigious talents.

On this week’s 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...

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0:00.0	Oh my god, I'm shaking.
0:03.1	We just won £200,000 on the post-paid lottery.
0:06.4	It's blown as a way.
0:07.8	It means we can do with the stuff that we want to do.
0:09.7	We can move to a...
0:10.8	You're picking up house rules always.
0:12.2	Yeah, it just live changed.
0:13.6	We had a plan, ten-year plan.
0:15.2	Ten-year plan.
0:16.0	Now it's the next week plan.
0:18.0	With people's post-code lottery,
0:19.5	you could win prizes every single day.
0:21.8	If you won, what would you spend it on?
0:24.2	PPL managed lottery's on behalf of GoodCosys,
0:26.3	18-plus conditions apply,
0:27.6	play responsibly not available in Northern Ireland.
0:30.2	Hello, I'm Joss Verstappen,
0:32.0	and you're listening to Beyond the Grid.
0:39.0	Hi, everyone, and welcome to Beyond the Grid,
0:41.3	presented by the new Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700.
0:45.2	I'm Tom Clarkson, and joining me this week
0:47.6	is a driver from the Netherlands
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