Before Sergio Perez’s $55K Offering, $200 Million Worth Max Verstappen Once Gave an Unique Gift to Red Bull Faithful
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A great act of kindness never ceases to disappoint. While the driver takes home much of the credit in Formula 1, his success depends largely on the entire team. Hence, it feels heartwarming when a driver goes out of his bounds to greet the entire team. Max Verstappen followed in his father’s footsteps to once gift every team member of Red Bull.
Verstappen senior gifted all his mechanics at Benetton a HiFi set during his stay. Max Verstappen did something similar at the end of the 2017 season.
What did the Dutch Prodigy gift his team members?
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Red Bull Racing is a massive company that has employed many talented people. Hence, to gift everyone something they’d like is a big task. However, the Dutch Prodigy seemed to have cracked the code of the perfect gift as he presented everyone at Milton-Keynes with a scale model.
Not a big fan of them himself, the Dutch driver told Verstappen.nl in an interview, “At the end of last year, I all gave them a scale model. I gave one to everyone in the factory, so quite a few! Everyone seemed happy with it!”
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The $200 million man triumphed to 2 victories and amassed a total of 168 points to finish P6 in the WDC. Moreover, Sergio Perez, Verstappen’s current teammate, also shelled out 55k to buy a classy gift for everybody at Red Bull.
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Despite being so generous, Verstappen hasn’t been in a giving mood every time. He once denied his teammate Sergio Perez a fitting gift. However, it was for all the right reasons.
Max Verstappen denied giving his teammate a “present” earlier this season
Formula 1 drivers are used to a very highly competitive nature. Naturally, gifting a driver any present mostly happens unwillingly. However, ahead of the Mexican GP, Verstappen was asked if he was willing to “gift” the race to his RBR teammate after clinching the WDC in Japan.
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Verstappen told Sky Sports, “It’s not about giving presents. As long as we finish first and second the team is happy. I mean, Checo is good enough to win races on his own.”
He further added, “It’s way more rewarding anyway to do it like that. So we’ll see this weekend where we are. Of course, having your own Grand Prix is just an amazing feeling anyway and I’m sure he will do well.”
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After a successful season dominating the F1 grid, Max Verstappen will be hoping for more of the same next season as well. Can the Dutchman leave where he left off last season and win his third title in a row?
Edited by:
Varunkumaar Chelladurai