Verstappen jokes about 'unique signature': 'It's not available anymore'

Formula1.com went to all the drivers with the most unusual questions. They asked Max Verstappen about his first-ever podium and autograph. In both cases, it resulted in a nice story.

Verstappen has been racing in Formula 1 for seven years now, but at 23 he is still one of the youngest drivers on the grid. The Dutchman doesn't have to dig far in his memory to think back to his first podium. In the story however, his father, Jos Verstappen, plays the main role.

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''That was in a go-kart race that I won. What I remember about it is not even that I won or that I was on the podium. It is about my father. He was my mechanic, but he was so nervous on the side of the track. That actually motivated me, because in my helmet I was laughing about it. I was seven years old at the time,'' Verstappen says in the video.

Drivers are also asked about their first autograph, and it turns out that someone is in possession of a unique copy. ''We had a workshop with minibikes and then someone came along. I didn't have an autograph back then and it doesn't look like the one I have now. That person has a special Verstappen-signature that is not available anymore'', concludes Verstappen laughing.