The course of history mig♑ht have been changed had 🃏the budding superstar opted to join either of those teams instead of the team who won his signature, Red Bull.

Red Bull enter the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 Austrian Grand Prix, their home race, on course for a second constructors’ championship in a 🔜row while Verstappen is set for a third consecutive drivers’ title.

Max’s father Jos Verstappen, himself a former F1 driver🅺, has told a back-story of when they visited Toto Wolff for secret negotiations in 2014.

“We went to his house in Vienna, we had a serious discussion,” J🎀os told .

“💃But I don’t think Toto had followed him much in karting and really knew how special Max was, otherwise he would have signed him blindf🍷olded, even if Mercedes didn’t have a junior programme.”

The Verstappen and Wolff meeting came to nothing.

Short൩ly after, the teenager met Helmut Marko of Red Bull.

“We met [Helmut] in 20✃14 in Hockenheim,” Verstappen’s father sa꧅id.

“We got int🐭o the Red Bღull motorhome and joined the table. 

“Helmut♛ said, ‘I only have twenty minutes’. Next year I want to put Max on a Toro Rosso in F1′.

“The deal was done.”

Sur🎶e enough, Verstappen l𒆙anded the 2015 Toro Rosso drive.

During his first-ever F1 season,🦹 as a 17 year old, Verstappen received inte𓆏rest from Ferrari.

The famous Italian t👍eam had Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen but, according to Verstappen’s dad, were sounding ou📖t replacements for Raikkonen.

“Not with the current manage✱ment,” Verstappen’s dad explained.

“They looked for us after the first year in F1.

“Now Max ha𓂃s everything at Red Bull, a competitive car andꦡ team, it wouldn’t make sense to change.

“However, wherev✃er he goes in the future he would make a difference if surrounded by the right people.”

Raikkonen remained at Ferrari for 2016.🌠 💛Verstappen started that year with Toro Rosso but, by March, was called up to Red Bull.

The rest is history.