We are back talking about Jos Verstappen’s violence against his son Max, now a three-time Formula 1 world champion, with another chilling story told in a video that has gone viral. This time it is Sauro Cesetti, one of the most famous Italian kart drivers in our country, who together with Alberto Naska, a YouTuber, remembers the time when he raced with the Verstappen family: “Jos raised him with hunger, with desire to do and with real blood”, is told, and the video goes around the web
SUnfortunately, he returns to talk about the controversial childhood of Max Verstappen, the famous three-time Formula 1 world champion with Red Bull, who however also went through some difficult moments before reaching the highest peak of motorsport, victim of his father’s violence which is increasingly discussed. Presumed, handed down and told by those who lived the moments of the Dutchman’s childhood just a step away from his kart, sometimes with bitterness, other times with a playful smile on his face. After who spoke of the blows that Jos Verstappen, former Formula 1 driver and all-round motorsport personality, gave to his son when he was very young, and who of the time when, after a weekend gone wrong, he was abandoned at a service station, now it’s the turn of the anecdote told by Sauro Cesetti in the video published by Youtuber Alberto Naska.
“I saw Verstappen racing from the first kilometers he covered on the kart. With his dad Jos, however, I did a couple of races. He is an animal: a strong and aggressive one on the track. It was never easy to overtake him. When you got behind him it was already incredible” says Cesetti, who in Italy is one of the most famous karting drivers of his generation. Together with Alberto Naska he was at the Mugello circuit for pre-season tests, which saw the YouTuber racing with one of the various cars he will drive this season, under the supervision of Cesetti. “Max grew up in his father’s footsteps. When he made mistakes for Jos it was kicks and punches. He was very violent towards him” he continues. Even Max Verstappen himself has always defined his father’s methods as hard and severe, but never without going into detail.
“I’ll tell you this anecdote here which is beautiful. We were in Sarno for the KZ World Championship, where Max was racing in the smaller category, while I was in the large category. In the final he found himself second and tried to overtake the first. At the moment of overtaking, however, he turned around. He lost about ten positions, but recovered them all, still finishing second in the world championship.” says Cesetti, and then comes the chilling revelation. “After the race he kept the helmet on for four hours. His father had punched him so many times that he was afraid to take it away. You know what’s great about this thing? That he raised him with hunger, with the desire to do things and with real blood, and in fact he is the only one who today wakes up at four in the morning to train on the simulator” he concludes.
THEThe video in question of Alberto Naska, a character loved and hated at the same time by motorsport enthusiasts both on social media and otherwise, has gone around the web and it was reported everywhere, even on foreign pages to tell, with absolute disapproval, Cesetti’s anecdote. “But this approach only works on mentally strong people. If Max hadn’t had this character, who knows how he would have ended up,” adds Naska at the end of the story, prompting further comments. By distancing ourselves from this, which is absolutely wrong and unjustifiable, we discover a further piece of the relationship between Jos and his son Max Verstappen which, if truthful, is truly terrifying.
