Marco Antonelli: Max Verstappen is currently still on a different level than Kimi | Max is a nice guy with a friendly character. Moreover he is a friend of ours. We both run a Mercedes GT3 team. But it's still too early to compare Kimi & Max. Of course there is a clear similarity: they're both fast

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2026-06-07T13:05:09+00:00

What the heck

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2026-06-06T15:09:34+00:00

Oh max :(

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2026-06-06T14:48:05+00:00

Stop the count

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2026-06-06T14:41:44+00:00

Max please 🥹

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2026-04-03T12:40:08+00:00

Here’s one from Mark Hughes’s Unstoppable book:

Sophie was in a kart by the age of 10. By 14 she was a serious force, Belgian national champion and subsequently competing in the world championship for five years. But her career was cut short when she became pregnant with Max at the age of 22. That’s when her dreams of breaking through into car racing – she was hoping to compete in DTM (German Touring Car Championship) or GT racing – were put on hold, forever as it turned out.

Van der Grint, as Bridgestone’s chief karting tyre engineer, was responsible for choosing the squad of drivers who would test the company’s products. He wanted only the fastest karters available. ‘We only had five or six of those out of over a hundred. They were drivers who were very fast and she was one of them. I don’t mean a good driver for a woman – I hate that. No, she was absolutely a top driver. She beat Jos in one of the important races. She won the Andrea Margutti Trophy in ’95, beat all the big stars. Sophie is a very lovely person and is the relaxed side of Max. As an example, she’d always bring chocolates, trying to build a team around her. She made it a personal relationship, it was nice. She knew everyone and was very social – and Max also has this.’

‘The Margutti Trophy was a big deal,’ states Michel Vacirca, boss of the Netherlands CRG karting team. ‘It was almost like a world championship. That was a huge result for Sophie.’ A fledgling Jenson Button could also see the potential in Sophie: ‘Sophie was my teammate in karts in ’95 in Paul Lemmens’ GKS team. She was a professional kart racer, there because she was one of the best in the world.’

Christian Horner, who was trying to compete against her in his own fledgling career at the time, believes, ‘She was definitely in the top 10 karters in the world at that time. I raced against her back in 1989. There was a European championship in Parma, Italy that then qualified you for the world championship in Zaragoza, Spain, and she was properly quick. And this was the time of Trulli, Fisichella, Jan Magnussen (who won it that year), Dario Franchitti. There was a really strong group of talent coming through and she was amongst it.'

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OutlandishnessPure2 · 2026-03-13T08:11:08+00:00

What’s wrong with the RBR 😭

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2025-12-23T09:54:41+00:00

Clip from Max Verstappen's END OF SEASON REVIEW! | Talking Bull

Transcript below:

Nicola: But like, how do you find the time? How do you find the time to do all of this? You do so many things. Like running and like coming two points away from winning a Formula One championship, while also doing GT3, while also doing sim racing. Like, what? How do you do that?

Max: Well, I think, if you're passionate about stuff, then it's also easier to to dedicate your time to it, right? If you have to, of course, do stuff that you also don't really enjoy, then it's very mentally draining.

Nicola: Yes.

Max: Yeah, when, when it's your passion and you love what you're doing, then it's not really mentally draining.

Nicola: So what racing series do you dream about at night?

Max: At night?

Nicola: Yeah, what's the first one you think of when you wake up in the morning?

Max: No, most of the time it's about what I can change to the GT car in terms of, like, stuff that I want changed or optimized, yeah. F1 I mean, I have so many people behind me anyway, in the team that I trust, and they do their job very well. But of course, in the GT world, it's a much smaller team.

Nicola: Yeah.

Max: Right, so, and there's still a lot of things that I also need to understand better and learn. So I'll do that in my sleep.

Tommo: I remember a few years ago speaking to Atze, who obviously works with you on Redline, and him saying, you know, during red flags, in breaks, you're in the WhatsApp group, you're in the discord, like messaging. You still that active?

Max: Yeah, I'm still very active. I'm driving a little bit less, like racing, sure. Why it's a little bit less? Because, I mean, the team is in a great spot, and great drivers, great management, so they know what they have to do, and I don't need to jump in. I can drive if I want to, let's say like that. But yeah, I mean, I still, if, like, sometimes I'm competing or whatever, I can wake up in the middle of the night with some ideas, and I do need to test it like I cannot wait for it.

Nicola: So then, what do you do?

Max: Wake up and turn on the simulator

Nicola: Like at two o'clock in the morning?

Max: I've done that, yeah. At 3 am. Texting my teammate "wake up".

Nicola: Yeah, youcan't put your phone on Do Not Disturb if you're alongside Max, because he's calling you at any time.

Tommo: Absolutely 100%. As you should be. You've got to set these standards Max. You've got to put them up high.

Nicola: But you need to sleep at the same time.

Max: Yeah, but I also need to go faster. So you can sleep when you're dead.

Nicola: That's a fair point. That's a very fair point.

Tommo: That's a hell of a quote Max.

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2025-12-18T17:51:51+00:00

Transcript below:

We saw your engineer, we mentioned him already, Gianpiero, completely in tears after the race in Abu Dhabi. What does he mean to you?

Max: He's had a really rough year, and still does. And it's really difficult actually. You know, I can't even fully comprehend myself how difficult it all is for him to do his job of course and then at home go on with life. Yeah, I don't know. It's very difficult to describe. Of course you hear us sometimes on the radio having our moments of course, and then afterwards I of course sometimes think too, "Yeah, should I have done that?" But you're so in it with everyone, of course, and so is he, on the track he's also doing the best-- But yeah, then you've had your weekend and then you go back to your home situation and then you think, "F off with your F1".

Yes, what matters then?

Yeah, that's very difficult and of course I too saw he was very emotional and...

For him a lot has happened this season of course, right? And his situation at home

And he always takes it very personally of course, that we didn't win then, you know? But I think... yeah

Yeah but he's a winner too, and he wants to extract the maximum. And then so much happens in such a year, whether it's at home or on track. What was right, what was wrong. And then that onboard radio of yours, I thought that was beautiful. At the team, at GP. Those are such beautiful words, and then a man like him breaks. It happens

Yeah, for a bit that was uh... After the race I really wanted to go to him, but there's so many people and chaos so you can't...

Everyone wants something from you

Yeah, to find a moment

What did you say to him in the end?

Yeah, like I said here. I can't of course fully understand his situation of course. I of course can try. My dad has seen him a few times in London too, for example. And you talk about it of course. Look, I know a little bit what's going on in the background. But you don't want to keep asking about it the whole time because in the end...

You're occupied with your racing, too

Yeah, that too, but you can't do anything about it! I have asked, "do you need anything? you know, if you need something, say it. You know, we'll try to arrange it or... Everything that's needed can be arranged" But it's just a really shitty situation. That's what it is

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2025-12-16T17:26:28+00:00

It’s an opportunity to sell

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2025-12-15T14:36:24+00:00

Yes, 14 out of the 45 points that Max lost that season was due to not getting the fastest laps 🥹

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2025-12-13T16:02:24+00:00

Just for you: https://i.imgur.com/V1LUCXI.png

He had 4 P2s from COTA to AD 2016 so it isn't as bright as it could be, but still pretty bright!

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2025-12-13T14:45:12+00:00

Thank you! 🥹

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2025-12-08T10:34:59+00:00

Loved watching the turnaround, I gave up all hope by the summer break and thought RBR was going to implode after Horner was sacked. Happy to see the turnaround and Max’s great driving after that!

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2025-12-07T15:36:59+00:00

Will the sub’s Snoo have to change? 😔

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2025-12-07T14:34:49+00:00

They would’ve moved Oscar aside from P2 🥹

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2025-12-07T14:18:19+00:00

Oh max 😭

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2025-12-06T15:02:53+00:00

Ahhh Oscar man

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2025-12-06T14:54:30+00:00

Please george

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2025-12-06T14:53:58+00:00

Yuki coming in clutch!!

OutlandishnessPure2 · 2025-12-06T14:33:42+00:00

Lovely mutual towing from Nando and Max

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