Rapid single-seater gestation: only 12 months elapsed between his first single-seater experience, a Formula Renault evaluation at Pembrey in South Wales, and his F1 test-driving role with Scuderia Toro Rosso (Red Bull’s junior team) in 2014.

It had some interesting points about Max’s record breaking journey into F1 and his dominant skills as a driver, but I was looking for more in terms of his own story not his father’s (who is a total dick and was given way to much attention in this for the drama). Verstappen may only be 26 years of age, but the Dutch motorsport sensation has an incredible record in F1. Starting with the Daily Express, a title with a long history of motor racing coverage, he has spent most of his career covering Formula 1, tennis, boxing and a host of other sports, now writing for the i newspaper.Relive Max’s formative moments, racing success and explore what the future holds for this young talent. The standard of translation from the original Dutch is perfect, and the book reads more fluently than several F1 biographies I’ve endured in recent years. As an author, Mark Hughes provides more of a technical appreciation of Max’s driving style, development and unique mental fortitude. More than half the book (first 8 chapters) cover Max’s pre-F1 junior career which James Gray manages to cover in good detail.

Good biography, interesting read, extremely boring how every terrible thing JV did the author excuses because he's "likeable" and because it got Max to where he is now.By the time his grandson had made it into F1, Frans had given up the pub and moved to the other side of the roundabout to run an ice cream parlour, but that did not stop the partying, albeit with a bit less alcohol involved. He had a reputation as a driver of being someone not to be crossed but once he had retired, he found himself outside the F1 paddock where the deadly nature of the sport seemed to legitimise the odd outburst or confrontation; he was in the ‘real world’, where his actions had real consequences. Biography: James Gray is a national newspaper journalist and broadcaster with nearly a decade of experience. The pair did have a child together; Kelly gave birth to a daughter, Blue Jaye, a half-sister to Max seventeen years his junior, whom he happily welcomed into the family just as he had his little sister Victoria when she came along a good few years before.

From chapter 5 onwards, this is thankfully the case and there is above all a lot of coverage of his karting career, some of which I didn't know much about. Max Verstappen was trying to chase down Lewis Hamilton in the final stages of the most dramatic title race of the modern era, the two drivers perfectly level on points before the race but the British driver now ahead on the track.

Material on this site includes photos of books and selected photographs for the purposes of comment, review and critique as permitted by applicable copyright laws. The writing was average at best and for a piece of nonfiction work, held a lot of assumptions and narrative that I was not necessarily expecting.