Biography
The Netherlands Rontainer Max Ferstappen, famous for the aggressive driving style, represents the Red Bull Racing team, participating in Formula 1 competitions. Behind the pilot, a series of brilliant victories, and ahead - new horizons and conquests.Childhood and youth
The racer, the full name of which sounds like Max Emilian Festappen, was born on September 30, 1997 in the Belgian city of Hasselt and brought up with his sister Victoria. His family had a long-standing connection with the motor racing, since the father of Jos Ferstappen was the pilot of the Formula 1 chamber, who spent for Holland, and Mother and Uncle, Sophie and Anthony Couve, participated in karting competitions and Nascar Whelen Euro Series.
A boy who in his childhood was taught to quick cars, at the age of 4 years old for the wheelless "Rotax Max Junior" and won the Belgian and Netherlands championship after a while. And in 2009, shortly after the divorce of parents, Ferstaptpen joined the Pex Racing team and won the competition held in the KF5 class.
In 2010, the teenager sat behind the wheel of the car with the TOUCH-AND-GO engine and coming to the international level, became the second at the KF3 planet Cup and overtook everyone in the WSK world series.
In 2013, Max moved to KZ1 - the highest category of karting and won the prestigious competitions held in the French city of Varen-sur-Alée, and then the father insisted on the debut in the classroom with open wheels, and the youngest Ferstappen spent tests in the "Renault Formula".
Carier start
The professional biography of Max began with the debut in the 3rd formula series, where he played the team of Van AmersFoort Racing from the Netherlands. In the season 2013/2014, the guy took part in competitions in Germany, Belgium, Monaco and Italy, took 1st place in the first race of the second stage on the famous Hockenheimring highway.After that, the owners of McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari, and Ferrari, were interested in a promising rider, but he concluded an agreement with Helmut Marko and went to the Youth program "Red Bull".
"Formula 1"
In 2014, Max became a Toro Rosso Scuderia test pilot and appeared on free races at the stage in Japan. A few months later the team announced the signing of a full-fledged racing contract, and the 17-year-old young man became the most young pilot of the Grand Prix.
In the first season in Formula 1, Ferstappen, due to the young age, which had no right to manage the city car, showed good results and finished the glasses 9 times. As a result, despite numerous gatherings due to technical problems and accidents, he took the 12th place in the overall standings and scored 49 prizes.
In 2016, after the stages in Melbourne, Sakhir, Shanghai and Sochi, the leadership of the older team Red Bull Racing headed by Christian Horner accepted a strange decision and eliminated Daniel Mountain from his ranks. And at that moment, Max, who spent not good racing, took advantage of the situation and took the place of Russian, which his father was delighted.
In the first race, the athlete with an increase in 181 cm and weighing 71 kg was in the not-cristed seat of a car, but this did not prevent him from becoming the fourth in qualifying and after the Mercedes accident triumphantly win the Spanish Grand Prix. At the next stages, Ferstappen demonstrated a tough character inherent in representatives of the Belgian nationality and people born under the sign of the zodiac scales, and by the end of the year he recorded 4 silver and 2 bronze podiums into his aspass, as well as 7 races in test glasses.
The next season, the young pilot took the 6th place in the championship, having achieved beautiful victories in Mexico and Malaysia, and in 2018, despite numerous racing incidents, rose into two steps above, won the podium in 10 Grand Prix. This noticeably affected the salary of the athlete, which in 2016 earned $ 600 thousand, and after 2 years - already $ 10 million.
In the 2019 season, Ferstappen rose several times to the pedestal, but he had new rivals in the person of the representative of McLaren Lando Norris and the Charles of Lekelera who had switched to Ferrari. Therefore, the rider became difficult to cope with competition, and his car was worse than the "Red Furi" in several qualifications and a row of the Grand Prix.
In the fall of the 2020th pilot "Red Bull" took the 3rd place on the "Grand Prix of Portugal", but it was not famous for the achievement and good statistics, but a colorful Tirara, spoken on the radio to the opponent Lance Stroll, whom he called the blind and Mongol. The speech of Ferstappen caused a wave of criticism in social networks based on the fact that Formula 1 racer should not allow himself to insult people with disabilities and entire peoples.
Personal life
The personal life of Max Ferstappen became the subject of rumors. Like a father who had many women, in his youth, he circled his head to friends, who did not intend to become wives and were not going to give birth to children.Such were the riders' relationship with Sabli Cook athletes, Maxim Purkui and Michaela Ahlin-Cottulins, as well as with a fashion model Joyce Godfree and bloggers Ros Wann de Aa. In 2017, his girlfriend became a dilara of Sanlik from Germany, about relations with which fans learned on the common photo from the Max page in "Instagram".
In the same way, it became known about the next novel athlete with the Brazilian model Kelly Peak, whose father Nelson Peak was a three-time champion "Formula 1". And the former boyfriend of the beauties was Daniel Knat, the Russian racer, who Kelly gave birth to Penelope's daughter in 2019, that by coincidence did not cross the union, but, on the contrary, contributed to the discontinuity. Ferstappen's new companion older than 9 years old.
Many Formula 1 pilots prefer Switzerland or Monaco. Like most colleagues, Max lives in a small principal on the Mediterranean coast.
Max Ferstappen now
Competitive Spirit and Passion for Racing - Factors that now stimulate Ferstappen to improve in sports.
In the spring of 2021, Max won the "Grand Prix of Monaco", it became noteworthy that a 23-fold winner of the Tournaments "Large Helmet" was celebrated on the finish of the pilot, American Serena Williams, who trusted the honor to wave a checkered flag.
In Baku on the "Grand Prix of Azerbaijan", Ferstaptpen came down from the distance, as he fell into an accident for 4 circles to the finish from the burst of the tire. A successful competition in France was more successful, in which the Netherlands Pilot went around British Lewis Hamilton and for the first time in his career won the race, qualifying and installed a quick circle within one stage.
Awards and achievements
- 2014 - Formula 3 - Race winner Zandvoort Masters
- 2014 - Formula 3 - Bronze medalist of the World Cup
- 2016 - Formula 1 - Winner of the Grand Prix of Spain
- 2017 - Formula 1 - winner of the Grand Prix of Malaysia
- 2017 - Formula 1 - winner of the Grand Prix of Mexico
- 2018 - Formula 1 - winner of the Grand Prix of Austria
- 2018 - Formula 1 - winner of the Grand Prix of Mexico
- 2019 - Formula 1 - winner of the Grand Prix of Austria
- 2019 - Formula 1 - winner of the Grand Prix of Germany
- 2021 - Formula 1 - winner of the Grand Prix of Emilia-Romagna
- 2021 - Formula 1 - Winner of the Monaco Grand Prix
- 2021 - Formula 1 - winner of the Grand Prix of France