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Max Verstappen New Ground - Season 1 - Episode 01: Let's go out and have fun
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00:00.
00:18Morning.
00:19Morning. How's it going?
00:20You good?
00:21Good, you?
00:21Yeah, not bad.
00:25I always had this passion of eventually setting up
00:29kind of my own racing team.
00:34We decided to create Verstappen.com Racing.
00:37At the moment, of course, it's jury driving in the GT3 cars.
00:41Yeah, especially after all the right-handers,
00:43when you get that chicane,
00:44and it's much better like this.
00:46There's so much more confidence on the braking,
00:48on the entry to the corner.
00:49It's just much more stable.
00:52What I also enjoy is to see young talent coming through.
00:56So that's why to try and create your own team
00:58and seeing that growth of drivers also coming through
01:02is something that I enjoy.
01:05Max, you are the three-time world champion.
01:08That's absolutely unbelievable.
01:10Very lovely.
01:12People sometimes ask me,
01:13what do you do in your free time?
01:14And they expect you to be something completely different
01:17to anyone else.
01:17But I also just enjoy the normal stuff.
01:20He will do everything to win.
01:22You see the competitiveness coming out for sure.
01:24Hey, you shut up.
01:26I'm braking on the entry to the corner.
01:30I think my life off-track is just very normal.
01:32You know what I would like right now?
01:33Kebab.
01:35You know, very simple how it should be.
01:37I mean, we're only 55 minutes later.
01:43Fortunately, Max is the master.
01:45He is insane.
01:47Nice and simple.
01:49You are so lucky.
02:11What does that?
02:12Is this for you?
02:16I'm a little bigger.
02:231,5-3.
02:26I don't like it for me.
02:29I'm going to do it, but I don't like it.
02:43in GT3 and Jos was doing rally and we thought to bring everything under one umbrella in one look
02:50and feel where Max is basically overviewing all three pillars with the passion what he has for
02:57racing in general. Can you have a reserve motorbike? Really? Of course. You have a spare engine made.
03:14In case you know you go backwards into the wall you have a spare engine my main focus of course
03:22is still on F1 so I can't dedicate my own time fully on it I mean it's something that I
03:29grew up with in
03:29the back of my mind one day you know when let's say F1 is enough you don't want to continue
03:35driving
03:35anymore you want to run your own team eventually I would like to have Verstappen.com racing as a team
03:47at the moment we are at a team with our drivers with our own deliveries and sponsors but the
03:53target is to just have your your foot fully your own team
04:05I think it's the toughest GT3 category out there at the moment all the good drivers are in it and
04:25to come in as a kind of a rookie with not much experience is tough but it's a good learning
04:32school
05:00of course there's moments where he's maybe not so happy with a certain performance but he will be
05:05also the first one to say how I can do better so it's not just pointing fingers it's always pushing
05:10me forward to improve and to learn from my mistakes I'm there to coach him I'm there to help him
05:18he sees
05:18the data he sees what I'm doing differently to him and it's all about processing and learning
05:41the car he's driving with at the moment still very new so it's normal that you are still
05:48learning and finding a lot of things I jumped in the car myself so I wanted to feel what was
06:01going on
06:02have you the hand balance a little bit? yes I'm going to go ahead three clicks now just a little
06:08bit
06:08can you do it a little bit? yes
06:13oh that thing is right on
06:18of course it's a new car for him so just talking about the buttons how everything works
06:22every car is a little bit different pedalen do you with the uh with the handle that here is it
06:30actually when you put the pin in and you hit the brake right behind the button and the button here
06:34right back on the steering wheel then it goes from white to green and now you can
06:38power work button here
06:39yeah so if you don't have to hold it just one time just click it so now is it
06:44active because it's green and then immediately start you just as we already in the light
06:49are then you have a drop start and then you can just go away from something to
06:53so if you don't have to hold it and then you can just stop and then you can just stop
07:23and then
07:23body, he feels everything. He knows exactly what the car is missing to go fast.
07:35Fortunately, Max is the master. He's a three-time world champion so if he said
07:40you have to do this and this then he's listening.
07:55Well, it was a two-time round. The first time I set it up, I was going to spin it
07:59off.
08:00But in the fastest round...
08:03The fastest round.
08:04Oh, and when you're not in, you're in the heavens.
08:07I didn't get the rounds. Theoretically, I had seven.
08:10You were fast in the second sector. I had it very hard to do that.
08:15But you just feel it.
08:16Yeah.
08:22Well, yeah, that's well good.
08:25I think if you have a bit of trust that you can so hard on the box...
08:29Yeah.
08:29...that the ball just hit.
08:47Yeah.
08:48It's hot.
08:49It's hot, huh?
08:50Yeah.
08:51We want Max it not too hard to make.
08:54I think he's just woke up.
09:00Can I see him?
09:01Yes, sir.
09:02He has the...
09:03The thing I think.
09:09No, a quarter over.
09:12Quarter past nine, huh?
09:13Yeah.
09:13That's Max.
09:14Where is he?
09:16Well...
09:17Oh, he said 9.45.
09:20Breakfast, 9.45.
09:21First thing, 10.15.
09:22Oh, 10.15.
09:23Yeah.
09:24Okay.
09:25Now...
09:25Huh?
09:27I looked at the schedule.
09:29It says 9.45.
09:30Like arrival.
09:31Yeah, but it says like 9.45 to like 10.05.
09:34My arrival.
09:38I thought, on you to hear, I think he's still in bed.
09:41Yeah, yeah.
09:42Breakfast, 9.45.
09:43And first thing, 10.15.
09:46Oh...
09:46Hey, you can do a little bit of track-and-strek-oefening.
09:50Yeah.
09:50The rally career is the age before beauty.
10:08It's time to qualify in Monaco.
10:11The streets here in Monte Carlo...
10:13...is a fight against yourself, against the walls...
10:18...and especially against the clock.
10:20Well, Max, enjoy the day.
10:22I'm glad it's a Sunday afternoon.
10:26Ha!
10:29Ha!
10:30Ha!
10:31Ha!
10:32Ha!
10:33Ha!
10:37Ha!
10:46So, welcome, everybody, to Osje Sleiben...
10:49...as we get set for our first qualifying session.
10:52...of the new DTM season 2023.
10:57I think it's been three times over C's.
11:05...the new DTM season 2023.
11:08Ha!
11:09Ha!
11:13Ha!
11:13Ha!
11:15Ha!
11:17Ha!
11:25When I watch my friends racing, I'm probably more nervous than I ever am in the car myself.
11:31Once you're in control, you know what you're doing, but then someone else is controlling their job, right?
11:37They're driving.
11:40Nobody has put in a banker lap at the moment.
11:42They've all done their system checks, their installation lap, they're back into the pits.
11:47There's just two cars out on the track at the moment.
11:50A stopwatch for Thierry is the same as a stopwatch for the rest.
11:54On the end, you're competing with the rest of the field and Thierry has to prove his speed.
11:58And, of course, with Verstappen.com and Red Bull on the car, we want to compete in the front.
12:07So he knows what the outlines are to be part of this programme.
12:11He has to perform.
12:15On the end, we want to be competitive.
12:17I told my son, I'm happy to support you, but we have to compete in the front.
12:27The jemand is not going to be competitive.
12:29He needs to beachiathed.
12:33The Quantip.
12:35If you had staat of the constant, please, he'll trap you.
12:40He needs to be rich.
12:41In the center.
12:42Seasser, 11%.
12:43How's the made notice?
12:44I love playing for higher burners.
12:49to push even more, try things which are just not possible.
12:52You know, you just try to bring more speed into the corner
12:55and then it's only getting worse.
12:57I remember just talking to yourself,
12:59like, what the fuck are you doing, you know?
13:03No, little scissors.
13:05The rest is there, and he's still pushing on, pushing hard,
13:09and he's still not adding attention for this yet.
13:11Mick V's over.
13:13He should have, the lap he did at 34,
13:16he should have slowed it down
13:17instead of, then, continue pushing.
13:23You look at the screens and you are just in the bottom half.
13:26Yeah, it's just frustrating
13:27because you put so much effort into it,
13:29you try to prepare yourself so much,
13:30and you have moments where it's going really well,
13:33and then from one moment to the other moment,
13:35it's not working anymore.
13:40He did a bit of go-karting here,
13:42and there, like, very little, not much at all.
13:44I think, step by step, he started to, you know,
13:47pick up a little bit of the virus of the racing as well.
13:49So, at one point, we were like,
13:50well, why don't we give him a go in a GT4 car?
13:55See how it goes.
13:56We did those track days,
13:57and you could see, like, with no basically racing experience,
14:01that he picked it up quite naturally, I would say.
14:04He did a drifting course in Germany,
14:06and he was FaceTiming me when he was doing his lap.
14:14Half an hour later, I got the first picture that he was crashed.
14:18So, yeah, it goes with crashes.
14:21He's racing against guys who grew up with me,
14:24who have a lot of racing experience,
14:26so it's not easy to immediately, you know,
14:29be in the fight with them, know exactly what to do.
14:32But it's good.
14:35It's the hard way.
14:54Instinct, you cannot really train.
14:56That just comes naturally.
15:00It's just that those racing scenarios,
15:03and just progressing through a race weekend,
15:05knowing when to push, when to be on the limit or not.
15:10But again, that I also didn't learn in one or two years.
15:14It's just every year, you just get a bit better at it.
15:17Now he has to do a lot.
15:19Two-tieden is the difference.
15:21Oh, minimal.
15:23Alonso, the last ball.
15:25There comes Verstappen.
15:26He will not save it yet.
15:27He will not save it yet.
15:28Verstappen, yes!
15:301-1-3.
15:31Again, that last sector.
15:32He has two and half.
15:34Damn it!
15:45I'm curious to see how Jos will play.
15:50He will cheat, for sure.
15:51Yeah, yeah, yeah.
15:53I'm curious to see who the 8th runs hit.
15:55He's the director, huh?
15:56He's Max.
16:03Well, let's see if he wins.
16:07Good morning.
16:08Good morning.
16:11Good morning.
16:12Good morning.
16:13Good morning.
16:14Not really quick.
16:17The problem is when you're equipped a lot.
16:20Yeah.
16:20This is really nice shoes, of course.
16:22Bye-bye, much faster.
16:23Not bad.
16:24Okay, so bad.
16:24Yep.
16:33Morning.
16:35Morning.
16:35How are you going?
16:36Good.
16:36Hello.
16:38What's up?
16:41When did you get this one?
16:46It's more of a big hat.
16:48You're so big.
16:54I wonder if my dad finds a place.
17:05Good morning.
17:07Good morning.
17:11Good morning.
17:14Cherie is, of course, the son of my manager, first of all.
17:18But I know him since he was basically born.
17:21We kind of, you know, like, grew up together.
17:28My first real memory with Max was probably when I was about six,
17:32and I had a remote control Formula One car,
17:34and he will for sure remember this story.
17:37We were playing with the car.
17:39He was like, can I give it a try?
17:40So I gave the remote control to him,
17:42and about five seconds later the car ended up in the water.
17:46And that was my birthday present gone.
17:50I need to still ask him if he can get me a new one.
17:57One, two, three, four.
18:03One, two, three, four.
18:06One, three, four, three, four, three, four.
18:07One, two, three, four, five.
18:08What am I doing?
18:10What am I doing?
18:13During pedal, you see more his competitive side.
18:16At the end, you know, he wants to win,
18:18and he will do everything to win.
18:19So he wants to have the best racket.
18:21He wants to have the best technique playing.
18:24He wants to feel ready, so he will make sure that he's fully prepared.
18:28For me, it was also funny seeing kind of that side in him in a friendship
18:32because, I mean, during pedal, it's still pretty relaxed,
18:35but you see the competitiveness coming out for sure.
18:46Normally, they always say you shouldn't start a business with friends or whatever,
18:50but it also depends. I mean, if I believe and I see that, you know,
18:54they're well-qualified, then why can you not be friends?
18:56Everyone has to do their job to the best, so at the end of the day,
18:59the performance, of course, comes over friendship,
19:02but everyone knows that that should be, I think, the standard anyway
19:06when you set up a team that is not there just, you know,
19:08to have an easygoing time, and I'm there to win.
19:12I'm not there to just fill up the field.
19:16I love it.
19:18Even when you play shit, it's still fun.
19:23I mean, it's all about trying to get better.
19:25Yeah, that's right.
19:27I don't have a race yet, but in race 1,
19:31the first round of Kelvin...
19:34Yeah, you started to sleep in the start.
19:38Ah!
19:39What do you do when you start?
19:41Do you just REM-GAS?
19:43REM-GAS?
19:44You have to spin the turbo.
19:46Yeah, you have to spin the turbo.
19:47Gas and REM a bit, right?
19:49Well, if you have a turbo like that,
19:51then you have to keep the turbo up.
19:52Yeah, that's what we're trying to do.
20:03A little bit of a little bit of a full gas and a full REM.
20:06But just...
20:07Yeah, it's like the preload.
20:09Yeah.
20:10You miss a little bit of those moments.
20:34It's always good to come to a test day where there's no pressure,
20:37there's no one around.
20:38You can just focus on your own things,
20:40and also try a lot of different things to really know what direction to go to.
20:45You just need to test a little bit more.
20:49If you know that you're just a little bit,
20:51then you can do it.
20:52No, you need to test a little bit.
20:54Yeah, you need to test a little bit.
20:55Yeah, set up.
20:57This can be done.
21:10I struggle a little bit.
21:12It's on the curb.
21:14The car on the front doesn't seem to absorb the curb very nice.
21:17It's like...
21:18The car was very oversteering,
21:20which I normally don't mind, but it was too much.
21:25I want to feel understeer.
21:27Like, try to get to an understeer balance,
21:29because every corner I'm just fighting the rear.
21:34Yeah, it just feels a bit light on the rear.
21:36The more you can find there.
21:39When he was peaking, it was getting straight on the point,
21:43and also for the magnitude of the issue,
21:46it was clear how much I had to do.
21:49Because, of course, being an F1,
21:50they listen to you a little bit more.
21:52It's normal.
21:54Cherie is a bit more of a rookie,
21:56and, of course, the engineers are also quite stubborn.
21:58That's how they are.
22:00I think he was already complaining a bit, like,
22:02ah, the car's a bit on the oversteer side.
22:04It's not, you know, very stable on the rear.
22:05But they were like, yeah,
22:07do we trust his feedback fully or not?
22:10But then I jumped in the car,
22:11and I said the same thing to what Cherie said.
22:14That's also very important for them to know
22:16that what I say is the same as Cherie,
22:18so they can trust his feedback.
22:23I had a lot of interaction with different driver in the past,
22:26also quite important driver,
22:29but no one, let's say, at the level of Max.
22:33You know, everyone can do a fast lap,
22:35and it's probably the least hardest thing,
22:38but it's also understanding why you did a fast lap,
22:40or understand where can I improve more.
22:44Just work for it, like, you know, work hard,
22:46understand the mechanical side of the cars as well,
22:48the whole package that needs to come together,
22:50and that's what I try to explain step by step.
23:11You know, yesterday,
23:12I was really loose,
23:13but I felt that if we could improve the rear,
23:16it had a lot of potential.
23:17From yesterday, we went down 4 plus 5.5 in the end,
23:23so I'm 20 years old.
23:25I think also, what I feel this car...
23:28I think his commitment and his precision.
23:31I always look into the details,
23:32which I try to do the best myself,
23:35but I think with the experience he has,
23:36he's really good at that,
23:37and always thinking in advance.
23:40He's very quick with the thought process.
23:42Actually, tell us we get some, uh...
23:44Okay, not quickly.
23:45No, I can see that.
24:0310K.
24:04Do you think you'll get faster?
24:08I don't know.
24:10I'm really curious.
24:19Look at how top speed this is now.
24:22They're up to it.
24:22They gave us to it.
24:23Oh, fucking hell, green, mate.
24:29To see him go directly up to speed.
24:35Everyone at one point can put a quite quick lap,
24:37but for him it just comes so quick.
24:39Even if it's a new car,
24:41he can just drive around the problems
24:43and use his talent and his experience
24:45to directly be on the pace.
24:48I don't know.
24:49I don't know.
24:49I don't know.
24:51I don't know.
24:51Free.
24:52It's good.
24:54How are you going to be so quick?
24:56Because it's Max.
25:04He's insane.
25:06He's insane.
25:07This guy is from another family.
25:15I know what to expect from this kind of guy.
25:18In this case was something really unexpected
25:22in a way that he was improving the lap time
25:25at a level which normally is not existing in the real life.
25:29So you are surprised even if you expect.
25:32So yes, then you remember.
25:34It's something to say with your friends
25:36when you are in the future in the bar.
25:44And you could just see the eyes lit up
25:46from end of day one to day two
25:48and you could see the comfort in the behavior.
25:52For them it was like when we did the lap time
25:55they were like wow, you know the car is quick.
25:57We made it quick.
25:58It really feels a lot quicker.
26:00It feels like a different car.
26:04So again it's like a whole boost to the team
26:06at the end of the day.
26:07So they all went to the next race.
26:09I think full of confidence that yes,
26:11now we have a car that, you know,
26:13we can fight up front.
26:31So it was great to be in Mugello because over the two days
26:34I gained a lot of confidence back.
26:38I think also with the team they started to trust me a bit more
26:41maybe with certain set up feedback.
26:43So it just kind of makes you forget the bad moments before
26:47and like a fresh start for the next weekend.
27:04I think it's a good moment.
27:10I think it's a good moment.
27:15But Verstappen, he tries to block it.
27:17But look at Norris,
27:18via the outside,
27:19and then it's going to miss.
27:20But via the outside,
27:22Verstappen,
27:22he has both my clothes.
27:28It looks so good, like the way it moves.
27:39It's unbelievable guys.
27:53You deserve that.
27:55What an unbelievable season we are having.
27:57Unbelievable.
27:57Large and in charge.
28:00Because that's Max Verstappen.
28:01What a great race.
28:03And he stint on mediums.
28:04Let's see what this race was.
28:09And I think...
28:11How did you get to first?
28:13Yeah, thank you very much.
28:15It's good.
28:16And you?
28:17Yeah, it was difficult with the two sets.
28:19Yeah.
28:20And after three push.
28:21But that's the line.
28:22That's the line.
28:23That's the line.
28:23That's the line.
28:25Yeah, because the line is very fine.
28:29And that's the line.
28:30And that's the line.
28:31That's the line.
28:32But yeah.
28:32That's what it is.
28:33But why are you lower than the pressure?
28:35With the test?
28:37Yeah, I think that the temperature is lower.
28:40And that's the line.
28:41And that's the line.
28:42That's the line.
28:43And that's the line.
28:43That's the line.
28:44Yeah, it's a bit more cold.
28:46Yeah.
28:49Yeah.
28:49It's a bit more of what you learned for the next time.
28:52Yeah.
28:54I can do it too much about you.
28:56Okay, Benk?
28:58Yes.
28:58I'm, uh, I'm gonna try to follow it.
29:01Yeah.
29:02Yeah.
29:02Hopelijk it's a bit, you know, okay?
29:03Yeah.
29:04Well, it's good.
29:05I'll let you know what we'll have to do later.
29:06Hopelijk to do a good route.
29:08Yeah.
29:09Yeah.
29:10It's good.
29:10Good your star.
29:11Oh, yeah.
29:12Oh.
29:13Oh, yeah.
29:14All right.
29:14Any tips, papa?
29:15What's he doing?
29:17Any tips?
29:18Yes.
29:20Let him and him on the gas.
29:23And take a little bit faster.
29:25Take a little bit faster.
29:26That's good.
29:28Bye.
29:28Bye.
30:01From GT4 into Porsche Cup to now into GT3.
30:06He has a tough learning school, but he's around, he's there.
30:09So I see the potential is there.
30:12I think in one or two years, you know, like he can pick up so much more experience and
30:17then you become a more all-rounded driver.
30:22Okay.
30:23Easy.
30:25I'm pretty confident that he can really fight for, you know, race wins and who knows.
30:32Championship.
30:46You are out.
30:46I don't know.
30:47You are out.
30:47I'm gonna do it.
30:47Time.
31:00No.
31:08I don't know.
31:09You're out.
31:11See you next time.
31:11Now, let's go.
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