The course of history might have been changed had the budding superstar opted to join either of those teams instead of the team who won✤ his signature, Red Bull.

Red Bull enter the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 Austrian Grand Prix, th💝eir home race, on course ꧋for a second constructors’ championship in a row while Verstappen is set for a third consecutive drivers’ title.

Max’s father Jos Verstappen, himself a former F1 driꦚver, has told a back-story of when they visited Toto Wolff for secret negotiations in 2014.

“We went to his house in Vienna, we had a ser🐎ious discussion,” Jos told .

“But I don’t think To༒to had followed him much in karting and really knew how special Max was, otherwise he would have signed him blindfolded, even if Mercedes didn’t have a junior programme.”

The Verstappen and Wolff meeting came to nothing.

🤡Shortly after🦹, the teenager met Helmut Marko of Red Bull.

“We met [Helmut] in 2014 in Hockenheim,♌” Verstappen’s father said.

“We got into the Red Bull motorhome and joinedꦦ the table.🌜 

“Helmut said, ‘I only have twenty mi🍌nutes’. Next year I want to put Max on a Toro Rosso in F𓆏1′.

“The deal was done.”

Sure enough, Verstappen 🃏landed the 2015 Toro Rosso drive.

During his first-ever F1 season, as a 17 year old, Verstappen receive🌱d interest from Ferrari.

💮The famous Italian team had Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen but, according to Verstappen’s dad, were sounding ou𒉰t replacements for Raikkonen.

“Not with the current manageꦰ🧸ment,” Verstappen’s dad explained.

“They looked for us after the first year in F1.

“Now Max has eveꦰrythiꦫng at Red Bull, a competitive car and team, it wouldn’t make sense to change.

“However, wherever he goes in the future he would make a difference if surrounded b𓃲y the right people.”

Raikkonꩲen remained at Ferrari for 2016. Verstappen started that year with Toro Ros🎃so but, by March, was called up to Red Bull.

The rest is history.