'Jos Verstappen was tough, but I never saw him hitting Max'

Anyone who knows Jos Verstappen a little, knows that Max’s father is a tremendously kind man. Yet the former F1 driver’s image is very much black and white. His long timefriend Richard Pex, who assisted Max in the early years in karts, knows Verstappen senior through and through, and has witnessed up close how the – according to the outside world – tough Jos prepared his son for Formula 1.