42 Facts About Jos Verstappen

Jos Verstappen started his career in Formula Opel Lotus, winning the Benelux Championship in 1992.

Jos Verstappen formally replaced Lehto after the Canadian Grand Prix, scoring two podiums in his rookie season before being replaced by Johnny Herbert in Japan.

Jos Verstappen competed for Simtek in 1995 before the team went bankrupt five rounds into the season, returning to his test driver role with Benetton.

Jos Verstappen became a full-time driver for Footwork in 1996.

Jos Verstappen returned to a race seat with Arrows in 2000, competing with them for a further two seasons.

Jos Verstappen then competed in sportscar racing in 2008, winning both the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Le Mans Series in the LMP2 class with Van Merksteijn.

Since 2002, Jos Verstappen has coached and managed his son Max from karting at an early age to winning four Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles.

Max's successes in the sport have renewed public scrutiny of Jos Verstappen, who has faced several allegations of assault spanning two decades.

Jos Verstappen began karting at the age of 8, and was participating in national competitions not long after.

Jos Verstappen remained successful, becoming a two-class Karting European Champion in 1989, a feat that remained unmatched until his son Max in 2013.

Jos Verstappen drove in Formula Opel Lotus, a class in which identical cars compete against each other.

Jos Verstappen first drove a Formula One car when he tested for the Footwork Arrows team alongside Gil de Ferran and Christian Fittipaldi at the Estoril circuit in Portugal.

At the Pacific Grand Prix Jos Verstappen ran 6th but spun off on cold tyres immediately after a pit stop.

Jos Verstappen took another third place at the Belgian Grand Prix due to Schumacher's post-race disqualification from victory, and a fifth place at the Portuguese Grand Prix.

Out of a race drive, Jos Verstappen did some test driving with Benetton and Ligier.

Jos Verstappen ran fifth at Interlagos before retiring, and finished sixth in Buenos Aires.

Out of a regular drive for 1998, Jos Verstappen tested for Benetton early in the year, but the team would not hire him as a permanent test driver for lack of sponsors.

However, the car was uncompetitive, the team struggled to run two cars to the same level and Jos Verstappen did not perform significantly better than his predecessor.

Johnny Herbert was signed to partner Rubens Barrichello for 1999 and Jos Verstappen was left casting around for a drive again.

Jos Verstappen teamed up with old Tyrrell friends Rupert Manwaring and Harvey Postlethwaite, planning to test the new car in 1999 and join the series in 2000.

Not long after, Honda changed their plans from becoming a team to a works engine supplier and Jos Verstappen was again without a Formula One seat.

Jos Verstappen tested for the Jordan team in case Damon Hill decided to retire before the end of the season but this came to nothing when Verstappen's testing performance was underwhelming and Hill resolved to see out the season.

Jos Verstappen re-signed to drive for Arrows in 2002, but was dropped at the eleventh hour in favour of Heinz-Harald Frentzen.

Jos Verstappen returned to the cockpit in 2003 with Paul Stoddart's European Minardi team, considered the tail enders of the grid.

At the French Grand Prix, Jos Verstappen recorded his and Minardi's only provisional pole position in the first qualifying session by running last on a rapidly-drying track; in the second, dry qualifying session, Jos Verstappen qualified on the team's usual back row.

Out of a drive for 2004 Jos Verstappen was considered as a replacement for Giorgio Pantano at Jordan partway through the season but was unable to fit in the car and began looking for drives outside Formula One for the following season.

Jos Verstappen achieved two podium places, and scored a total of 17 championship points which makes him the second best performing Dutch driver in Formula One to date, beaten only by his son, Max.

In December 2007, Jos Verstappen announced that he would take part in the 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans race, as well as enter the 1,000 kilometre races in the Le Mans Series.

Jos Verstappen participated in the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Lola-Aston Martin.

In 1996, Jos Verstappen married Belgian ex-kart driver champion Sophie Kumpen, whose cousin is NASCAR Whelen Euro Series racing driver Anthony Kumpen, and whose uncle is former motocross and GT endurance rally driver Paul Kumpen.

Jos Verstappen' parenting of his son has been described by some in Formula One as either "tough love" or child abuse.

Some of them allege Jos Verstappen physically beat Max multiple times, once at a kart race to punish him for not performing better.

Contrarily, Jos Verstappen says he made his son's kart perform worse and told him false rules about races because Max was "winning so easily".

Jos Verstappen has denied that he abused Max, who, journalist Erik van Haren reports, publicly has a good relationship with his father.

When Max Jos Verstappen was teammates with Daniel Ricciardo at Red Bull Racing, the team released a promo video of the two having a conversation.

Jos Verstappen was found not guilty of assault, but guilty of threatening her in text messages and of violating a previously issued restraining order.

Jos Verstappen was fined and sentenced to three months probational, suspended prison sentence.

In January 2009, Jos Verstappen again had to appear in court and was convicted to a three months suspended prison sentence and a 1650 Euro fine for sending Kumpen threats and visiting her house despite the restraining order.

On 29 November 2011, the media reported allegations that Jos Verstappen had assaulted an unnamed 24 year old girlfriend in a hotel room in the Dutch city of Venlo; Jos Verstappen claimed to only have had a discussion with her.

Jos Verstappen was accused of destroying two cell phones, jewellery and the handbag of his girlfriend, and he faced two weeks of imprisonment and 20 hours of community work service.

On 28 July 2016, it was reported that Jos Verstappen physically attacked his own father, Dutchman Frans Jos Verstappen in his hometown of Montford.

Jos Verstappen was the test driver for the aborted Honda F1 project.