I spoke to someone at Le Mans who was very close to [Max's] GT program on the Nordschleife and he said: "He's a freak." He goes all the way to extract every last bit from the people, the technology, the shock absorbers. He brought in a box of absorbers he got from a guy he knows in France: "These are the absorbers we're driving with." So AMG's completely pissed off: 'We don't want that because we've got, I don't know, Bilstein as German absorber manufacturer.'
But well, he's just like his dad. You could also call him on the Friday of a kart-race weekend and say: "In the south of Italy they've got a carburettor that's half a tenth faster," and Jos would get in the car in the middle of the night to go pick up that carburettor. And that's how Max is too. That's a family thing: get everything out of it. - Renger van der Zande, Ziggo Race Café De Stamtafel
