The three-time F1 champion’s father has courted controversy for his parenting style and has been forced to deny🉐 that he ever abu🎃sed him.

But he admitted hitting his young son man🌸y years ago, b♊efore a race in England, on the helmet.

“He needed that,” Jos told while pointing out💧 that his son went on to win the race.

Jos, an ex-F1 driver ꦺwho was once Michael Schumacher’s teammate, dedicated himself to his son’s aspirations of becoming a driver.

He built engines f⛎or Max’s karts and would drive 13 hours around Europe, ferrying his son to race tracks.

He would make Max practice as a child, even if rain forced his race to be ꦉcancelled and every other family had gone home.

Max says now: “From a young age, I saw other kids running around, playing, not💯 really thinking about the future.

“But m🌞y dad, he had a plan. And I had to stick to 🦩the plan.

“Sometimes he thought I was a bit lazy. I definitely had arguments with my dad about it.꧋”

H﷽is father detailed a notorious back-story from their past, when he left his young son deserted at a petrol station because he was so angry at him for crashing out of a race.

“He wanted to talk, I di❀dn’t want𓃲 to talk,” Jos explained. 

🃏“So I sai🍃d, ‘If you don’t shut up, I’ll send you out.’”

He would go back to collect his so🌟n, but the tale has been held against Jos ever since. He has defended himself against criticism of his parenting.