In the latest edition of FORMULE 1 Magazine there is an extensive personal interview with Raymond Vermeulen, in which he talks about the collaboration with Max Verstappen and the creation of a global brand. “Friendship and trust are the basis of everything,” says Max Verstappen’s manager, among other things.
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In the interview, Raymond Vermeulen shares a hilarious anecdote about the Friday practice session that Max Verstappen, as a 17-year-old boy, was allowed to do in 2014 on behalf of Scuderia Toro Rosso in Brazil in preparation for his debut season in Formula 1 in 2015.
The full interview with Raymond Vermeulen about the creation of a global brand and the collaboration with Jos and Max Verstappen can be read in the latest edition of FORMULE 1 Magazine. Read a passage from the story below.
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Raymond Vermeulen “We had 0.0 budget and for that reason we took one hotel room for the three of us in Hotel Transamerica in São Paulo. With three single beds. A cot was arranged for Max, a kind of stretcher. He lay at our feet and, of course, went to bed on time that Thursday, while Jos and I went for a drink. We came back to the room a bit later and perhaps made a little too much noise. Max woke up and asked: ‘Dad, can you be a bit quieter, because I have to drive tomorrow?’ How did Jos react? Something along the lines of: ‘Don’t complain, everything will be fine.’ That shows how we did it, we relied on each other. We just had a lot of fun. Still happy, fortunately.”
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Read the full story with Raymond Vermeulen in the latest edition of FORMULE 1 Magazine! Get it now in stores or order it online, with free delivery throughout the Netherlands.
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