Former F1 driver Jos Verstappen has scored his first victory as a rally driver after taking the top spot in Belgium's Monteberg Rally.
Verstappen, who clocked up 106 starts during his F1 career with Benetton, Simtek, Footwork, Tyrrell, Stewart, Arrows and Minardi, has been a long time fan of rallying, electing to switch to the discipline last year.The father of reigning F1 world champion Max Verstappen, who won Sunday’s Miami Grand Prix, claimed his first spoils driving a rally car in peculiar circumstances last weekend.
Verstappen, partnered by Renaud Jamoul, who co-drove for WRC driver Adrien Fourmaux, set fastest times on four of the stages, including the Dikkebus test which featured in the Ypres Rally WRC round last year. "For me to come back this way, I'm super satisfied with that. When it started to rain during the day, it was treacherously slippery, but then I was able to take back time. I'm very happy with my first rally win.”
“In the beginning of the year we tested. But testing is different from driving an actual test, because in a test you can drive over the same test every time," he added.
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