Max Verstappen's Mother Sophie Kumpen Pours Her Opinion On Sergio Perez Cheating Acts The Talks Toda

Max Verstappen’s Mother Sophie Kumpen Pours Her Opinion On Sergio Perez Cheating Acts

Sophie Kumpen, who is Max Verstappen’s mother, is also a big fan of racing. In her time, she was a famous kart racer. His father was a Dutch Formula One driver, so motorsports have been a big part of his family for a long time.

Racing Max has won the F1 World Championship twice while driving for the Red Bull team under the Dutch flag in 2021 and 2022. In 2011, he drove in his first race at the Pembrey Circuit. He did 160 laps of the track in a Barazi-Epsilon FR2.0-10 Formula Renault Car from the Dutch company MP Motorsport.

Later, when he was 17, he drove in his first Grand Prix race as a full-time driver. It was the 2015 Australian Grand Prix. Up until 2022, he has won 34 races and been on the pole 19 times. At the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in 2022, he also won his second grand slam.

On the other hand, he has extended his contract with Red Bull, which will keep him working there until at least 2028. Verstappen may have thought he was making a point when he wouldn’t let teammate Sergio Pérez take his place at the So Paulo Grand Prix.

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Max Verstappen Mother Sophie Kumpen Taking part in karting

Sophie Kumpen, who is Max Verstappen’s mother, began Karting when she was just 10 years old. The Sun said that the mama Verstappen was only 16 years old when she finished ninth in the Formula A World Championship.

The next year, she won the karting world championship, beating out former F1 driver Giancarlo Fisichella.

Sophie has also raced against some of the best drivers, like Jarno Trulli, Jan Magnussen, Christian Horner, and Giancarlo Fisichella, during her career.

But she quit her job to help her children, Victoria and Max Verstappen, with their schoolwork and careers. She used to race cars, but now she is an interior designer.

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Max Verstappen And Sophie Kumpen Mother-Son Duo

Sophie Kumpen has been an important part of Max Verstappen’s life for a long time. She has always been there for her son, helping him learn how to drive and keeping special traditions during race week.

As was said above, the mother and son have a close relationship. After winning his first Formula One world championship, Max went home to his mother to eat “comfort food” and take some time off.

She also said that her son wanted to stay home because he was too tired to go anywhere. After going up the F1 mountain, Verstappen’s mother, Sophie, gave him comfort.

Sophie Kumpen gives up her karting career so she can spend more time with her family

Sophie Kumpen was a well-known karting champion, but she quit her job to focus on her kids, Victoria Verstappen and Max Verstappen, and their school and work lives.

Basically Sports said that she wanted to drive in Formula One and had tried out several race cars, but after getting married to Jos Verstappen and having kids, she decided to quit. Jos was a Formula One driver, and the two of them were pretty far apart, so she gave up her dream. She is happy now that her son has done what she had always wanted him to do.

Sophie and her husband Jos split up when Max was a young child. Max’s sister Victoria moved in with their mother, but he stayed with his father. Jos used to race in Formula One, and he won the German Formula Three championship and the Masters of Formula Three in 1993.

During eight seasons, he raced in Formula 1 for seven different teams. During his career, which lasted from 1994 to 2003, he was also the first Dutch F1 driver to finish on the podium twice.

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Personal Life

Max Emilian Verstappen was born on September 30, 1997, in Hasselt, Belgium. He has a younger sister named Victoria. His parents are Jos Verstappen and Sophie Kumpen. When Verstappen was young, his parents split up. After that, he moved in with his dad, and his sister Victoria moved in with their mom. Verstappen has three younger half-siblings from his father. Blue Jaye is his sister from his second marriage, and Jason Jaxx and Mila Faye are his brother and sister from his current marriage.

His father was a Dutch Formula One driver, and his mother was a Belgian kart racer. His first cousin once removed, Anthony Kumpen, raced in endurance races and won two NASCAR Whelen Euro Series championships. He is currently the team manager for PK Carsport in the Euro Series.

Even though Verstappen’s mother is Belgian and he was born and lived in Bree, Belgium, he decided to compete with a Dutch racing license because he “feels more Dutch.” This is because he spent more time with his father than with his mother because of his father’s karting activities, and he was always around Dutch people while growing up in Maaseik, a Belgian town on the Dutch border. Verstappen said in 2015: “I only slept in Belgium, though. During the day, I went to the Netherlands, where I also had friends. I was brought up as a Dutch person, and I still feel like one.”

He raced in Formula One for more than a season before he got his license to drive on the road at age 18. Verstappen moved to Monaco the next day, in October 2015, and has been living there ever since. He has said it wasn’t because of taxes. Verstappen bought a Dassault Falcon 900EX plane from Virgin Galactic in November of 2020. The plane has the registration number PH-DTF and is run by Exxaero.

Verstappen likes to play racing games in his free time. Verstappen has taken part in many sim racing competitions, and he says that it helps him get ready to race in real life. Verstappen is on the international sim racing team Team Redline. Verstappen is a fan of both FC Barcelona and PSV Eindhoven. Verstappen speaks Dutch, English, and German. He learned German from Michael Schumacher when they were both driving karts. He was made an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau in September 2022 because of how well he did in racing. Since January 2021, everyone knows that Verstappen is dating Kelly Piquet.

Junior Career

Verstappen raced in the Mini Junior championship in his home province of Limburg, Belgium. Verstappen moved up to the Rotax Max Minimax class in 2006 and won the Belgian championship in that class. The Dutch Minimax championship was held in 2007, and Verstappen won it. Verstappen won the Dutch and Belgian Minimax championships in a CRG kart that his father had entered for him. He also won the Belgian Cadet championship. Verstappen joined the CRG customer team Team Pex Racing in 2009. He won the Belgian KF5 championship and the Flemish Minimax championship that year.

In 2010, Verstappen moved up to racing karts on an international level. He joined CRG’s factory team to race in the World and European championships. Verstappen came in second at the KF3 World Cup, behind the more experienced Alexander Albon, who would later become his Formula One teammate at Red Bull Racing. He beat Albon in the WSK Euro Series and also beat Robert Vișoiu to win the WSK World Series. In 2011, Verstappen won the WSK Euro Series in a CRG that was powered by a Parilla engine. Verstappen joined the Intrepid Driver Program the next year so he could race in the KF2 and KZ2 classes. He beat CRG driver Felice Tiene to win the WSK Master Series in the KF2 class. Verstappen beat Dennis Olsen and Antonio Fuoco to win the KF2 class of the South Garda Winter Cup.

Verstappen was going to leave Intrepid, it was said at the end of 2012. After a short time with Zanardi karts made by CRG, Verstappen went back to the CRG factory team. He raced in the KZ2 class at the SKUSA SuperNationals in a CRG and came in 21st. Verstappen won the European and World KF and KZ championships when he was 15 years old. This was the first time anyone had ever done this in the history of the sport. At Varennes-sur-Allier, France, Verstappen won the 2013 World KZ championship, making him the youngest driver to ever win the KZ world championship.

Verstappen joined the Red Bull Junior Team in 2014 and raced in the FIA European Formula Three Championship.
On October 11, 2013, Verstappen drove a race car for the first time at the Pembrey Circuit. He drove 160 laps in a Barazi-Epsilon FR2.0–10 Formula Renault car. The Dutch team MP Motorsport gave the car. In 2013, he tried out for a few Formula Renault 2.0 teams. Verstappen drove a Dallara F311 Formula 3 car run by Motopark Academy in December 2013. [46] In December, there was another Formula Renault test at Circuito de Jerez. Driving for Josef Kaufmann Racing, Verstappen went faster than regular Formula Renault drivers like Steijn Schothorst and Matt Parry. At the Circuit Ricardo Tormo near Valencia, Verstappen drove faster than Eddie Cheever III, who had more experience.

On January 16, 2014, it was announced that Verstappen would race for the first time in the Florida Winter Series, which is not a championship.

Verstappen won the race at Palm Beach International Raceway on February 5 after starting from the pole. This was the second race weekend. A few weeks later, Verstappen beat Nicholas Latifi by 0.004 seconds to win the second race of the series at Homestead–Miami Speedway. After racing for the first time in a single-seater car in the first Florida Winter Series, Verstappen drove for Van Amersfoort Racing in the FIA European Formula 3 Championship. At the age of 16, Verstappen set a record by winning six races in a row and ten races overall. He also had eight retirements and one DNS (did not start), which put him third in the overall rankings.

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