The three-time F1 champ🦹ion’s father has courted controversy for his parenting style and has been forced to deny that he ever abused him.

But he admitted hitting his young son many years ago, before a race in England, on the helme🎶t.

“He needed that,” Jos told while pointing out that his son went on to win ꧙the🌱 race.

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

He built engines for Max’s karts and would drive 13 hour𓆉s around Europe, ferrying his son t🍎o race tracks.

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

Max says now: “From a young age, I saw other kids running around, playing, not really thinkin♒g ab🔴out the future.

“But my dad, he had a plan. And I hꦗad to stick to t🎐he plan.

“Sometimes he thought I was a bit lazy. I definitely had argum💝ents with my dad about it.”

Hi🔯s father detailed a notorious back-story from their past, when he left his youngꦫ son deserted at a petrol station because he was so angry at him for crashing out of a race.

“He wanted ไto talk, I didn’t want to t𒁏alk,” Jos explained. 

“So I said, ‘If you do🃏n’t shut up, I’ไll send you out.’”

He would go back to collect his sonꦏ, but the tale has been held against Jos ever since. He has defend♕ed himself against criticism of his parenting.