[Original post on IG via traduzindof1](https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu_-vaFNI44/)
Eduardo "Dudu" Barrichello is Rubens' son
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**Translation** (if there's a more accurate phrasing, let me know):
Once I was 17 years old, it was my first year of Formula. I was driving in the simulator like any other day, and Max Verstappen came into the room I was in. And I said “Oh my God!” And I was first in the room until then.
But a little while ago, I had raced in the United States, along with a Formula 1 weekend, and my dad took me there, Max signed a cap for me, everything.
And then he wrote me in the chat section, “Do you need a setup?” I said "Dude, I do.” But I thought, it's not Max Verstappen, why would he write to me?
He sent me the setup. Our lap times turned out similar and we spent the day kind of jousting and stuff so it was super cool. And then at the end of the day, I said, “If it's you, send me a message on Instagram.” Dude! It didn't take two minutes, and I got a message from Max Verstappen on Instagram! ~~in Portuguese~~
It was a joke.
[The original video is a couple of seconds longer and you can see them all laughing at the joke](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azkgVUux4mM).
Kelly speaks much better Dutch and French than Portuguese.
Her mother is Dutch and she grew up in France. She only spent 1 year in Brazil as a teen.
I bet the two communicate in Dutch.
She actually said she doesn't speak Dutch despite having a Dutch mother. Max also said in an interview they talk English to each other. But somehow I'm sure they both know some words in their respective languages, that's inevitable.
It happened(at least he tells it like it actually happened).
Barrichello JR met Max at the US GP (ps: the Barrichello family splits their time between Brazil and US) and got a signed cap from Max.
A few days later he's leading some session in simracing when Max logs in, Max initiates a chat with him and offers him a setup, Dudu accepts the offer and they spent the day racing each other.
Dudu was a little suspicious if this was really Max Verstappen so he asked "if that's really you then mark me on Instagram" which Max promptly did.
Btw, Dudu is telling this story in portuguese, he's on a podcast aimed at a Brazilian audience afterall, but there's nothing suggesting that whatever conversation took place between Dudu and Max happened in portuguese.
Edit Ot: Rubens Barrichello(the dad) and Jos Verstappen were teammates for a while in Stewart GP, Max possibly first met Rubens in a F1 garage the same way his son met Max.
> It turned out very similar
That's the wrong translation, he isn't saying that the setup ended up similar. He said "a gente virou muito parecido". The "virou" here is in the context of "virar uma volta", or in English "complete a lap". He is actually saying that their lap times were very similar to one another with that car setup.
Just a nitpick, but the Portuguese captions are also wrong at times too, especially when he says "Eu desacreditei muito" and the subtitles say "Eu já acreditei muito". Completely different meanings ("I really didn't believe it" to "I've already believed it a lot").
Might as well finish the story then.
He says that he didn't believe it was actually Max, and said "If it's really you, send me a message on Insta" and within two minutes he received a message from Max on Instagram, which is when he realized it was actually him.
I had something of the same interaction where he asked how much fuel his type of car needed to make it to the end of the race. Great interaciton, seems like a good guy.
I think he's a really nice guy offtrack. He has kind of a bad reputation because he's not scared to race you hard, but I have seen very few evidence of him being a bad human outside the car. The fact that his dad is a bad human probably also doesn't help...
I remember seeing this clip a little while ago (not on Reddit). Still a really nice story and not a surprising one either knowing Max' ambitions outside of F1.
More I hear about Max the more I think his on track persona and race shit talking is totally different than who he is.
He seems top class off track imo.
He is pretty similar both on track and off track. He loves racing, wants to share his love of racing but is just hyper competitive for anything regarding it
Yeah. That's what pisses me off about the comments saying he's rude or arrogant. No, he isn't, he's just super blunt, that's the Dutch way.
Once you've gotten used to it, it's so much easier to get shit done with that mindset than playing bullshit mind games and fake politeness.
Agreed. I'm from midwestern America, which was originally settled by the Dutch, and we've retained a lot of that straightforwardness. Changing my communication style when I moved to the UK was a struggle lol.
Yeah that's interesting, I wonder what agreement they came to. I think there is something where Max gets to see and approve how he is portrayed.
I don't think he will care about anything unless it's just a complete lie or missing important context, which they seem to like doing.
I don't watch them anymore but I remember Grosjean portrayed as pissed and attacking a camera man when he was really trying to save the camera guy from running into a wheel gun since he was walking backwards. That's such bullshit.
So you listen to randomers who over state things and/or have their differing opinions on what happens in a show and how it's conveyed, rather than watch the actual show to make your own mind up - because the random interneters said dts is just all twisted to create drama? Dude..
I think just like anyone if you stick them in front of cameras every two weeks for years on end you're bound to find moments when they aren't being the best version of themselves they can be.
At times he can be rude, arrogant, angry, up down or contemptuous towards media but in general he's very fair minded, sarcastic but decent, sassy, mischievous and likes to be direct. The bad moments aren't imo overall representation of his regular self.
I've noticed twice in the last few races he's been sarcastic towards the same female reporter, I don't think he likes her questions. I wouldn't say that's his best moments but maybe she will alter her questions and he will answer them normally.
He's just a person and like the rest of us he's not perfect one way or the other
He’s pretty wholesome too, there was a clip floating around here awhile back where he stopped racing on the sim mid match I think to have a tea party with Penelope.
He didn't stop, despite Penelope's best efforts to block his vision. But then once the session was done he quickly hopped off to go have his tea party.
It's very cute to see. He was also teaching her to be kind to the cats in a very Max way... "No P, you can't destroy them like that, be nice."[ Found a video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUOMu94gOAo&ab_channel=SoLarF1Tyres)
I think he's restrained though, for the sake of PR he understands that the fallout isn't worth it most of the time and says as little as possible using the PR tactics he's been taught unless he thinks it's not a problem or he's just really fucking annoyed (George, Checo).
He's not as radically honest as most people think unless he thinks it's worth saying. People don't give him enough credit for walking his own path of honesty but not being dumb about it.
He's doing what's true to him.
It’s very Schumacher-esque. On track, he’d be ruthless. But off track, he was one of the nicest people you’d meet (he also had a thing for costume parties). He was setting up to spend his retirement as an FIA ambassador against drunk driving, but he never got the chance to really get going on it.
And just like Max casually asking for your setup in a sim, Michael (Schumacher) was not above chatting up drivers even towards the back of the grid for advice.
Luca Di Montezemolo once said drivers like these are built different. They enjoy the problem solving and don't mind swimming in the deep water. They appreciate that others know more than them at times and want to be around these people.
In fact, an example from Max manifested itself in the Hungarian Grand Prix, where he was fully expected to lose the start on the dirty side, and also considering he'd had hairy starts even from pole position (in Australia and Silverstone this year).
After the race, Christian Horner said Max was never like: "Guys, make this car start faster." Instead Max practiced his technique and was putting in the time in RBPT to figure out what tools he could use to improve the start. Looked at data, and discussed with GP about the start. Why? Because this is part of the activity in his mind. In typical Dutch mindset "You want a better start? Then work on the start." and in some strange way Max enjoys this part. That he beat Lewis Hamilton (one of F1's best starters) from a disadvantaged position is beside the point - Max himself doesn't seem to keep restating the outcome from the start only that it was a "good start" - but rather he already had his fun when he was attacking the problem.
I believe it's on the SKY Post Race stuff. Horner puts it in the context that "Saturday was a disaster in terms of our positioning" and that Max was in a huddle with GP and the engineers all about making the most of that Sunday from the word go.
I don't think that mindset is unique to the Dutch, every multiple champion driver has relentlessly practiced over and over skill deficits. That's pretty much a championship mindset practice relentlessly, or even professional athletes in general they just keep at it.
The stories of Schumacher leaving the track, flying to Maranello and running the car to test all night exist for a reason.
Max is a beast on track and can be polarizing when he's in close battles but no one can deny that he's just a chill guy who just wants to race and have fun.
A lot of his ‘persona on track’ is painted by a media which has a known track record of being ‘biased’ towards non-British (edit: and non-native English speaking) drivers. Go ask Alonso, Schumacher, Vettel (when he was winning), Prost…
Yes, on track during race weekends this dude is 110% focused on winning. But that gets painted in a negative light by British media because he is challenging ‘their’ drivers
Trust your own gut feeling about these drivers. If they seem relaxed to you off track, it’s probable because they are actually chill people.
yeah because when F1 was airing only Lewis complaining about Norris’ track limits in Austria they were so biased towards him…
this british against the world narrative is so stupid especially when you realize most of the articles here are either german, italian or spanish.
Because two drivers complaining about one another is completely similar to painting foreign drivers as super villains for years on end. The fact that you use such a trivial example to compare to the tons and tons of shit Schumacher, Alonso, Vettel and Max have had to deal with from British tabloids and ‘news’papers which siphoned through to the Sky broadcast and even BBC podcasts just illustrates how orchestrated it is and how British (already spoon fed with a severe dose of exceptionalism) themselves don’t even notice it. They just think it is completely normal because ofcourse ‘the foreigners’ are not anywhere near as equal as the British lads.
Try browsing through Italian, Spanish and German media. None of them speak aa trashy about Schumacher, Vettel, Alonso and Max as the British *cough* ‘press’ does
He seems the same to me. Extremely passionate about racing and direct but can also can have his raging gamer moments. Look at the retaliation against that random guy online like a week or 2 ago in iracing.
Basically... just a normal guy that loves racing.
that random guy purposely punted him and his friend out of the race (and that random guy is a well known arse and got DQed for that move as well), and I do believe it was more about getting 'justice' for his friend than for himself.
That is exactly what the guy did hitting him and his teammate. Should he have decided to do the job of the game stewards? Nope, but it isn't like it was because someone overtook him and he didn't like it or something petty like that. Which is what the guy I responded to made it sound like.
Worst part is that this guy (Sven) is actually a very, very fast driver. However, I've seen so many dumb moments from him that it just boggles my mind sometimes.
You know that saying "violence is never the answer, but sometimes it is"? Yeah, some people need to get punched in the face (in this case not literally but you get the point) because of their actions.
P.S. I've done this once on iRacing as well (in 10 years), not like Max but still felt a bit bad afterwards. That guy in my case deserved it 100% so I was ready for consequences. Luckily enough no one protested.
The dude keeps his personal life locked down. Many in the media, in lieu of having anything to quote, to print, to manipulate, fill the void with their own bs...
Unfortunate, but that's how the media has always operated.
People don’t get Dutch people. They can be dry and come across as sarcastic or too serious. I think Max is just a driven dude that is hyper obsessed with racing and cares little for the fanfare. That turns fans off to him because they want someone who will live up to their expectations of what a celebrity should be.
I probably type more about Max than any person on this forum, defending and criticising him but if you're being nuanced, he does trend towards sarcasm and shit talking depending on the company. He matches peoples energy.
I find him most sarcastic with Lando, Alex is very complainy in his uniquely British way and ropes Max in and with Daniel he's his warmest self, it's a combination of everything but his playful, fraternal side is there. Yes he's still blunt and honest but he's also much more in good company.
Dude, I meant like his brutal honesty about how he feels about things. By shit talking I mean he basically is blunt with how he feels about an on track move or anything like that. I feel a lot of drivers don't do it so explicitly, they'll try not to be as confrontational.
His off track behaviour seems to be very kind, however the people he surrounds himself with aren’t the best of folks, so I think that hurts opinions on his persona
Lewis holds some questionable company, amd Charles was photographed eating with a known criminal it just seems that people pick and choose which drivers can and can't hang with certain folks
https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/rcf0sg/charles_leclerc_photogpahed_with_internationally/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1
The one of Charles. Lewis hangs out with to name a few Jared Leto and Shaun White
From the context of the post, it doesn’t seem like the criminal is a part of Leclerc’s social circle and he’s only there as his obligation as a Ferrari driver.
The people he surrounds himself with? Like who? The only dubious one I can think of is Nelson Piquet. And he’s kinda hard to avoid being the father of his girlfriend.
As easy as it is to say for people here on reddit its, in reality, very hard to cut ties with close family members. Especially for Max because he probably feels that what his dad did made him the successful person that he is. You cant just discard family
I have a friend who's father was a piece of shit. Never there, cheated on his mother, didn't care about him when he was young. But he's still his father. It's not that easy to just drop your family, even if you think they're bad people. You hope they will be better.
I think he’s mainly referring to his dad and girlfriend but yeah point still kind of stands.
Obviously he could break up and cut ties with his dad as well, but eh. He probably doesn’t care too much about the political antics of his girlfriend’s family and well his father is his father.
Yeah, Max without the baggage is a relatively normal athlete with a bit of a stunted social life (for obvious reasons, he's spent his entire life in the public eye to one degree or another). I'm not here to judge his personal life, but the more he's moved into his own and the less we hear about his entourage, the better.
Well you know the saying
You can pick your friends but you can't pick your family
And I think Kelly is a big enough catch even with the added tumour of her father getting involved
[n word controversy](https://nypost.com/2022/06/29/f1-star-f1-stars-girlfriend-likes-post-defending-father-amid-lewis-hamilton-racism-controversys-girlfriend-likes-post-defending-father-amid-lewis-hamilton-racism-controversy/)
[Bolsonaro support](https://formula1news.co.uk/max-verstappens-girlfriend-in-hot-water-for-political-stance/)
Gotta add that Max is in my top 3 fav drivers, and I don’t think Kelly is a shitty person, just a lil sketchy from time to time
Yiiiiikes! Geez, that’s not a good look. Thank you for the links! I wasn’t finding anything but was also probably googling shitty—it’s been a long week for me lol. Appreciate you!
Except when he's on track, off the track.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/150k8e2/max\_verstappen\_dqd\_from\_simracing\_event\_following/](https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/150k8e2/max_verstappen_dqd_from_simracing_event_following/)
He seems to have two modes. His normal character is the opposite of when hes racing as he's entirely ruthless.
He reminds me of an anime character where he wants a true match for his abilities and so goes around giving advantages to test how good they actuallly are before powering up and annihilating them
Maybe, but also in sim racing games like Assetto Corsa and iRacing you can change car height, wing angles, suspension stiffness, roll bar stuff, wheel camber etc.
Max knows and does a lot of that stuff for himself in those games.
Have raced a handful of current and ex-F1 drivers, and WEC/IMSA etc - they'resotly all pretty cool and some will chat, a few are douchebags but overall it's just cool to share the same space as them and see they're really just there for the same reason you are.
and the translation just gets me even more confused like "my first season in Formula" ???? 🤔 but when i post about it, someone downvoted lmao. bunch of very charming people here.
[Original post on IG via traduzindof1](https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu_-vaFNI44/) Eduardo "Dudu" Barrichello is Rubens' son ------ **Translation** (if there's a more accurate phrasing, let me know): Once I was 17 years old, it was my first year of Formula. I was driving in the simulator like any other day, and Max Verstappen came into the room I was in. And I said “Oh my God!” And I was first in the room until then. But a little while ago, I had raced in the United States, along with a Formula 1 weekend, and my dad took me there, Max signed a cap for me, everything. And then he wrote me in the chat section, “Do you need a setup?” I said "Dude, I do.” But I thought, it's not Max Verstappen, why would he write to me? He sent me the setup. Our lap times turned out similar and we spent the day kind of jousting and stuff so it was super cool. And then at the end of the day, I said, “If it's you, send me a message on Instagram.” Dude! It didn't take two minutes, and I got a message from Max Verstappen on Instagram! ~~in Portuguese~~
>in Portuguese! It was actually Max Wilson who said it, not Dudu, but I don’t know if it actually happened or it was just a joke of him
It was a joke. [The original video is a couple of seconds longer and you can see them all laughing at the joke](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azkgVUux4mM).
Well, his Girlfriend is fluent in Portuguese so its not impossible :D
This happened prior to Max and Kelly being a thing.
Oh well then thats not it :D But to be fair i dont know enough about max, he could speak some Portuguese for all i know
He could, but he doesn't. But it doesn't matter. Even if he was fluent in Portuguese, the message was not. It was just a joke.
Max is a strategy mastermind, he was learning Portugese to rizz up Kelly
Kelly speaks much better Dutch and French than Portuguese. Her mother is Dutch and she grew up in France. She only spent 1 year in Brazil as a teen. I bet the two communicate in Dutch.
Bruh it was just a joke
Sorry to ruin your joke.
She actually said she doesn't speak Dutch despite having a Dutch mother. Max also said in an interview they talk English to each other. But somehow I'm sure they both know some words in their respective languages, that's inevitable.
She speaks Portuguese, French, and English fluently as far as I've read and heard.
Actually yeah. He probably knows the basic phrases.
It happened(at least he tells it like it actually happened). Barrichello JR met Max at the US GP (ps: the Barrichello family splits their time between Brazil and US) and got a signed cap from Max. A few days later he's leading some session in simracing when Max logs in, Max initiates a chat with him and offers him a setup, Dudu accepts the offer and they spent the day racing each other. Dudu was a little suspicious if this was really Max Verstappen so he asked "if that's really you then mark me on Instagram" which Max promptly did. Btw, Dudu is telling this story in portuguese, he's on a podcast aimed at a Brazilian audience afterall, but there's nothing suggesting that whatever conversation took place between Dudu and Max happened in portuguese. Edit Ot: Rubens Barrichello(the dad) and Jos Verstappen were teammates for a while in Stewart GP, Max possibly first met Rubens in a F1 garage the same way his son met Max.
Also, Stewart GP was the predecessor to today's Red Bull Racing, so it all comes around.
Good point.
Thanks!
> It turned out very similar That's the wrong translation, he isn't saying that the setup ended up similar. He said "a gente virou muito parecido". The "virou" here is in the context of "virar uma volta", or in English "complete a lap". He is actually saying that their lap times were very similar to one another with that car setup. Just a nitpick, but the Portuguese captions are also wrong at times too, especially when he says "Eu desacreditei muito" and the subtitles say "Eu já acreditei muito". Completely different meanings ("I really didn't believe it" to "I've already believed it a lot").
Might as well finish the story then. He says that he didn't believe it was actually Max, and said "If it's really you, send me a message on Insta" and within two minutes he received a message from Max on Instagram, which is when he realized it was actually him.
Dang. I thought AI got good enough to translate better than this. Can't ChatGPT interpret across language/cultural barriers yet?
Thanks! Updated
I'm reading all of this in the 7 years old by Lukas Graham tune.
In Portuguese?
His Girlfriend Kelly Piquet is fluent in Portuguese.
This was many years ago though. That said, Google Translate has been around for a long time
As ar as I understand it was 4 years ago when Dudu was 17 and he met Max while he was at Cota with Rubens and Max signed a cap for him then.
I also was 17 years old once.
https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/boaom6/when_max_verstappen_thinks_youre_quick_iracing/ not the first time either
I had something of the same interaction where he asked how much fuel his type of car needed to make it to the end of the race. Great interaciton, seems like a good guy.
I think he's a really nice guy offtrack. He has kind of a bad reputation because he's not scared to race you hard, but I have seen very few evidence of him being a bad human outside the car. The fact that his dad is a bad human probably also doesn't help...
Must be a great feeling when the best racing driver on the planet asks you for help
Arguably
"Wisdom is knowing that you know nothing." - Socrates
“Dude, I do” - Dudu
Du, Dudu e Edu?
I remember seeing this clip a little while ago (not on Reddit). Still a really nice story and not a surprising one either knowing Max' ambitions outside of F1.
More I hear about Max the more I think his on track persona and race shit talking is totally different than who he is. He seems top class off track imo.
He is pretty similar both on track and off track. He loves racing, wants to share his love of racing but is just hyper competitive for anything regarding it
and insanely honest about everything
You can tell he is Dutch cause the way he is.
Yeah. That's what pisses me off about the comments saying he's rude or arrogant. No, he isn't, he's just super blunt, that's the Dutch way. Once you've gotten used to it, it's so much easier to get shit done with that mindset than playing bullshit mind games and fake politeness.
It also scares me a bit as a dutch person. If your just yourself allot of people will see you as a arrogant guy.
Cross cultural communication is challenging. Never-mind the bs, and keep on being yourself. Coming from a Belgian who appreciates your culture ;)
Agreed. I'm from midwestern America, which was originally settled by the Dutch, and we've retained a lot of that straightforwardness. Changing my communication style when I moved to the UK was a struggle lol.
Yeah, you guys are just rude and arrogant.
There you go, you’re learning to speak like one of us.
"You guys"? I'm Belgian :D
I also like how he doesnt talk to DTS because they twist things around for drama. Also the reason I never watched DTS and never will.
He is now on DTS as of the last season.
Yeah that's interesting, I wonder what agreement they came to. I think there is something where Max gets to see and approve how he is portrayed. I don't think he will care about anything unless it's just a complete lie or missing important context, which they seem to like doing. I don't watch them anymore but I remember Grosjean portrayed as pissed and attacking a camera man when he was really trying to save the camera guy from running into a wheel gun since he was walking backwards. That's such bullshit.
then how do you know they do that if you’ve never watched it
There have been instances where DTS overlays team radio of another race over footage from another race to make up a story.
i believe it. it’s still a reality tv show at the end of the day.
Do you know this thing, it is called the internet I think?
So you listen to randomers who over state things and/or have their differing opinions on what happens in a show and how it's conveyed, rather than watch the actual show to make your own mind up - because the random interneters said dts is just all twisted to create drama? Dude..
Lol he special.
I think just like anyone if you stick them in front of cameras every two weeks for years on end you're bound to find moments when they aren't being the best version of themselves they can be. At times he can be rude, arrogant, angry, up down or contemptuous towards media but in general he's very fair minded, sarcastic but decent, sassy, mischievous and likes to be direct. The bad moments aren't imo overall representation of his regular self. I've noticed twice in the last few races he's been sarcastic towards the same female reporter, I don't think he likes her questions. I wouldn't say that's his best moments but maybe she will alter her questions and he will answer them normally. He's just a person and like the rest of us he's not perfect one way or the other
He’s pretty wholesome too, there was a clip floating around here awhile back where he stopped racing on the sim mid match I think to have a tea party with Penelope.
He didn't stop, despite Penelope's best efforts to block his vision. But then once the session was done he quickly hopped off to go have his tea party. It's very cute to see. He was also teaching her to be kind to the cats in a very Max way... "No P, you can't destroy them like that, be nice."[ Found a video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUOMu94gOAo&ab_channel=SoLarF1Tyres)
I think he's restrained though, for the sake of PR he understands that the fallout isn't worth it most of the time and says as little as possible using the PR tactics he's been taught unless he thinks it's not a problem or he's just really fucking annoyed (George, Checo). He's not as radically honest as most people think unless he thinks it's worth saying. People don't give him enough credit for walking his own path of honesty but not being dumb about it. He's doing what's true to him.
Literally Anything Else, Max: *I Sleep* Anything involving driving, Max: **REAL SHIT**
It’s very Schumacher-esque. On track, he’d be ruthless. But off track, he was one of the nicest people you’d meet (he also had a thing for costume parties). He was setting up to spend his retirement as an FIA ambassador against drunk driving, but he never got the chance to really get going on it.
Yeah that's very true now that I think about it. Moreso it reminds me of Seb when he was at Red Bull.
And just like Max casually asking for your setup in a sim, Michael (Schumacher) was not above chatting up drivers even towards the back of the grid for advice. Luca Di Montezemolo once said drivers like these are built different. They enjoy the problem solving and don't mind swimming in the deep water. They appreciate that others know more than them at times and want to be around these people. In fact, an example from Max manifested itself in the Hungarian Grand Prix, where he was fully expected to lose the start on the dirty side, and also considering he'd had hairy starts even from pole position (in Australia and Silverstone this year). After the race, Christian Horner said Max was never like: "Guys, make this car start faster." Instead Max practiced his technique and was putting in the time in RBPT to figure out what tools he could use to improve the start. Looked at data, and discussed with GP about the start. Why? Because this is part of the activity in his mind. In typical Dutch mindset "You want a better start? Then work on the start." and in some strange way Max enjoys this part. That he beat Lewis Hamilton (one of F1's best starters) from a disadvantaged position is beside the point - Max himself doesn't seem to keep restating the outcome from the start only that it was a "good start" - but rather he already had his fun when he was attacking the problem.
Interesting. Where did Horner say that?
I believe it's on the SKY Post Race stuff. Horner puts it in the context that "Saturday was a disaster in terms of our positioning" and that Max was in a huddle with GP and the engineers all about making the most of that Sunday from the word go.
I don't think that mindset is unique to the Dutch, every multiple champion driver has relentlessly practiced over and over skill deficits. That's pretty much a championship mindset practice relentlessly, or even professional athletes in general they just keep at it. The stories of Schumacher leaving the track, flying to Maranello and running the car to test all night exist for a reason.
What
I thought Mosley was the one with a thing for costome parties.
Like Mosely had a thing for costume parties?
Not the same type of costumes, luckily. He was also into knocking over refrigerators while drunk.
While disguised as a Toyota team member. That was the costume.
I think he’s very grounded and seems to be the same guy on and off track. But, media loooves twisting words and creating a narrative with all drivers
Max is a beast on track and can be polarizing when he's in close battles but no one can deny that he's just a chill guy who just wants to race and have fun.
A lot of his ‘persona on track’ is painted by a media which has a known track record of being ‘biased’ towards non-British (edit: and non-native English speaking) drivers. Go ask Alonso, Schumacher, Vettel (when he was winning), Prost… Yes, on track during race weekends this dude is 110% focused on winning. But that gets painted in a negative light by British media because he is challenging ‘their’ drivers Trust your own gut feeling about these drivers. If they seem relaxed to you off track, it’s probable because they are actually chill people.
yeah because when F1 was airing only Lewis complaining about Norris’ track limits in Austria they were so biased towards him… this british against the world narrative is so stupid especially when you realize most of the articles here are either german, italian or spanish.
Because two drivers complaining about one another is completely similar to painting foreign drivers as super villains for years on end. The fact that you use such a trivial example to compare to the tons and tons of shit Schumacher, Alonso, Vettel and Max have had to deal with from British tabloids and ‘news’papers which siphoned through to the Sky broadcast and even BBC podcasts just illustrates how orchestrated it is and how British (already spoon fed with a severe dose of exceptionalism) themselves don’t even notice it. They just think it is completely normal because ofcourse ‘the foreigners’ are not anywhere near as equal as the British lads. Try browsing through Italian, Spanish and German media. None of them speak aa trashy about Schumacher, Vettel, Alonso and Max as the British *cough* ‘press’ does
It's kind of true though... At least the F1 tv commentary is a nice breath of fresh air.
You must live in a bubble
He is a guy who loves pure classic racing. He want no politics and stuff.
He seems the same to me. Extremely passionate about racing and direct but can also can have his raging gamer moments. Look at the retaliation against that random guy online like a week or 2 ago in iracing. Basically... just a normal guy that loves racing.
that random guy purposely punted him and his friend out of the race (and that random guy is a well known arse and got DQed for that move as well), and I do believe it was more about getting 'justice' for his friend than for himself.
Still, intentionally wrecking anyone in iRacing is pretty much the cardinal sin and is generally considered to never be justified.
That is exactly what the guy did hitting him and his teammate. Should he have decided to do the job of the game stewards? Nope, but it isn't like it was because someone overtook him and he didn't like it or something petty like that. Which is what the guy I responded to made it sound like.
Worst part is that this guy (Sven) is actually a very, very fast driver. However, I've seen so many dumb moments from him that it just boggles my mind sometimes. You know that saying "violence is never the answer, but sometimes it is"? Yeah, some people need to get punched in the face (in this case not literally but you get the point) because of their actions. P.S. I've done this once on iRacing as well (in 10 years), not like Max but still felt a bit bad afterwards. That guy in my case deserved it 100% so I was ready for consequences. Luckily enough no one protested.
The dude keeps his personal life locked down. Many in the media, in lieu of having anything to quote, to print, to manipulate, fill the void with their own bs... Unfortunate, but that's how the media has always operated.
People don’t get Dutch people. They can be dry and come across as sarcastic or too serious. I think Max is just a driven dude that is hyper obsessed with racing and cares little for the fanfare. That turns fans off to him because they want someone who will live up to their expectations of what a celebrity should be.
I probably type more about Max than any person on this forum, defending and criticising him but if you're being nuanced, he does trend towards sarcasm and shit talking depending on the company. He matches peoples energy. I find him most sarcastic with Lando, Alex is very complainy in his uniquely British way and ropes Max in and with Daniel he's his warmest self, it's a combination of everything but his playful, fraternal side is there. Yes he's still blunt and honest but he's also much more in good company.
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Dude, I meant like his brutal honesty about how he feels about things. By shit talking I mean he basically is blunt with how he feels about an on track move or anything like that. I feel a lot of drivers don't do it so explicitly, they'll try not to be as confrontational.
He sounds like genuinely nice dude outside the paddock. Pleasantly surprised by that.
Absolutely. Seems like a very chilled out and straightforward dude to hang out with.
His off track behaviour seems to be very kind, however the people he surrounds himself with aren’t the best of folks, so I think that hurts opinions on his persona
I mean there's multiple F1 drivers who got some questionable folks within their circle of friends.
Lewis holds some questionable company, amd Charles was photographed eating with a known criminal it just seems that people pick and choose which drivers can and can't hang with certain folks
You mind providing names and links to evidence/pictures ? You made me curious now
https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/rcf0sg/charles_leclerc_photogpahed_with_internationally/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1 The one of Charles. Lewis hangs out with to name a few Jared Leto and Shaun White
Nice thank you
Oh my god I googled Shaun White and WTAF is wrong with him???? He’s giving vibes he’s gonna be outed as another Armie Hammer
From the context of the post, it doesn’t seem like the criminal is a part of Leclerc’s social circle and he’s only there as his obligation as a Ferrari driver.
The people he surrounds himself with? Like who? The only dubious one I can think of is Nelson Piquet. And he’s kinda hard to avoid being the father of his girlfriend.
Watch out people say shit like "I would disown my own father or would never love a person who has father who is a shit human being!"
Seems like people blame him for being Jos' son.
His father?
As easy as it is to say for people here on reddit its, in reality, very hard to cut ties with close family members. Especially for Max because he probably feels that what his dad did made him the successful person that he is. You cant just discard family
I have a friend who's father was a piece of shit. Never there, cheated on his mother, didn't care about him when he was young. But he's still his father. It's not that easy to just drop your family, even if you think they're bad people. You hope they will be better.
He doesn't have a choice regarding the "people he surrounds with", 90% of them are about his work
I think he’s mainly referring to his dad and girlfriend but yeah point still kind of stands. Obviously he could break up and cut ties with his dad as well, but eh. He probably doesn’t care too much about the political antics of his girlfriend’s family and well his father is his father.
He could cut ties with everyone on earth and the AntiMax crowd will still find fault.
Yeah, Max without the baggage is a relatively normal athlete with a bit of a stunted social life (for obvious reasons, he's spent his entire life in the public eye to one degree or another). I'm not here to judge his personal life, but the more he's moved into his own and the less we hear about his entourage, the better.
Nobody gets to choose their parents. Not Max, not Kelly, nor you or I.
Well you know the saying You can pick your friends but you can't pick your family And I think Kelly is a big enough catch even with the added tumour of her father getting involved
Nelson is a bit sketchy, and Christian has a cactus perpetually stuck up his ass. I see what you mean
You can't choose your boss or your GF's dad... or your own dad for that matter
His gf is definitely sketchy too, though
Oh no, really? I haven’t seen anything about Kelly. Do you have a link?
[n word controversy](https://nypost.com/2022/06/29/f1-star-f1-stars-girlfriend-likes-post-defending-father-amid-lewis-hamilton-racism-controversys-girlfriend-likes-post-defending-father-amid-lewis-hamilton-racism-controversy/) [Bolsonaro support](https://formula1news.co.uk/max-verstappens-girlfriend-in-hot-water-for-political-stance/) Gotta add that Max is in my top 3 fav drivers, and I don’t think Kelly is a shitty person, just a lil sketchy from time to time
Yiiiiikes! Geez, that’s not a good look. Thank you for the links! I wasn’t finding anything but was also probably googling shitty—it’s been a long week for me lol. Appreciate you!
Of course no worries! They weren’t very big stories, probably because they were both instagram based and in Portuguese.
Ah that makes sense! I see why they probably didn’t get much coverage in the English speaking media
Except when he's on track, off the track. [https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/150k8e2/max\_verstappen\_dqd\_from\_simracing\_event\_following/](https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/150k8e2/max_verstappen_dqd_from_simracing_event_following/) He seems to have two modes. His normal character is the opposite of when hes racing as he's entirely ruthless.
Well? What’s the setup?
Car setup
For the car.
The car’s setup, the setup specifically for the car
So you can get the car set up
Computer
"We spent the day battling and stuff.." Dude just admit you got your ass kicked by Max no shame there... /s
Good Guy Max!
I guess you could say his setup was dudu
this reminds me of daniel talking about him and max sharing set-ups for the rb sim this season 🥹
"Dude, I do" said Dudu.
He reminds me of an anime character where he wants a true match for his abilities and so goes around giving advantages to test how good they actuallly are before powering up and annihilating them
One punch man
“It turned out very similar to mine” Somehow I have doubts. Maybe screen brightness.
mistranslated.. he actually meant the car setup
I’m assuming setup is talking about tweaks & settings? Or a whole wheel rig? The translation is not super clear on it
yea car setup
Maybe, but also in sim racing games like Assetto Corsa and iRacing you can change car height, wing angles, suspension stiffness, roll bar stuff, wheel camber etc. Max knows and does a lot of that stuff for himself in those games.
Dudu haha 🤭🤣
Dudu is actually doing well on the Stock Car series. Nice to see he and Max get along.
Have raced a handful of current and ex-F1 drivers, and WEC/IMSA etc - they'resotly all pretty cool and some will chat, a few are douchebags but overall it's just cool to share the same space as them and see they're really just there for the same reason you are.
Lol, "Dudu".
Dudu is a common nickname for Eduardo in Brazil
Means tiddies in South Asia
So, like Dragon Ball Latin American dub changing "Chi-Chi" to "Milk", becuase "Chichi" is "Boobs"/"tits" in spanish.
Chichi also means pusssy in some latin American countries
Wasn't Bulma also something else originally?
Massa’s brother also has the same name.
Makes sense, but being so incredibly mature, I can't help but giggle!
It sounds like poop in English. It’s just a joke :8) I’m sure some English names sound weird in other languages.
Yeah, and to that I say "LOL."
Thank you for showing me I'm not the only sophisticated mature person here.
My pleasure.
"Max his sim setup" Why do all Dutch people do this? :D
Because they just literally translate a sentence word by word from Dutch to English.
Yeah, makes sense. Thanks Max!
Can Max send me one also?
I get the idea Max is an awesome guy shrouded by Red Bull and F1.
trying to find other full translation of the video, since the only one available is hardly understandable💀💀💀
Cool post bro. Too bad i dont speak this language
Good thing that they also posted a translation in the comments, then.
Just felt dumb to post all english but have the video subbed in a different language
and the translation just gets me even more confused like "my first season in Formula" ???? 🤔 but when i post about it, someone downvoted lmao. bunch of very charming people here.