MAX VERSTAPPEN has revealed he wasn’t happy with how he was portrayed in Netflix series Drive To Survive last year.
The Red Bull driver featured heavily on series one of the behind-the-scenes documentary, which returned this year.
Max Verstappen was unhappy with how he was portrayed on ‘Drive To Survive’ last yearCredit: Getty Images – Getty
The show gave viewers a fly-on-the-wall look at the 2018 Formula One season with access-all-areas coverage.
A new series was released last month following every aspect of the 2019 season.
Verstappen has likely not yet watched the new show, but he was unhappy with how the show depicted him last year.
Speaking to ABtalks, the 22-year-old said: “”I don’t think it was the real me. The problem is they will always position you in a way they want.
“It’s a series, whatever you say they will try to make you look reckless or try to make you into whatever fits the story of the series.
“The series is all about excitement and it needs to be exciting, so they position you and whatever fits to the episode.
“You’re interviewed and they use the words also under different circumstances, so it never really fits.
“I never really liked that. I prefer to just have a one-on-one interview with the person who would like to know me.”
Max Verstappen thinks the show made him look arrogant in 2018Credit: AP:Associated Press
The young Dutchman was particularly unhappy with the approach that producers took which he felt made him look arrogant.
Verstappen said: “I like to be just myself. I speak when I need to speak, and if I don’t have anything to say then I won’t say anything.
“I don’t think I show a lot of emotion. I’m just easy going, but I’m also very determined to win.
“I try to do everything for it because it’s my life, it’s my passion. Sometimes it might seem arrogant or whatever, but I’m there to win.
“Everybody’s different, everybody works differently. But for me, that seems to work the best.”
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