Verstappen sees Silverstone crash as confirmation: "I'm at the right place"
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Since 2015, Max Verstappen has been one of Formula 1's best. This even though he only had a single year in Formula classes behind him. After a season in Formula 3, he made the jump straight to Formula 1, without winning the F3 championship. Nevertheless, the Dutchman found his place at Toro Rosso and was able to grow.
"I went straight into F1 so you have to learn that, especially when you have a car just fighting more at the front, you don’t need to race all or nothing all the time," Verstappen explained in conversation with The Race. The Dutchman explains that he has always had the winner's mentality and that this mentality can sometimes cause problems in Formula 1.
Red Bull one big family
"I always wanted to be first, before. Every single practice session. I always wanted to be the quickest where it’s not always necessary. That’s what changed a little bit over the years," Verstappen acknowledges. Now it's all about being the fastest on Saturday afternoon and Sunday, which he has been very often this season.
As a result, he is now in the middle of the title battle with Lewis Hamilton, which has also already led to spectacle, including at Silverstone. "But what happened afterwards really shows that we are just one big family with the support I had from everyone within Red Bull. Sometimes you forget about these kinds of things, but that really shows how much we all care for each other. It was for me a confirmation that I’m at the right place," Verstappen concluded.