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Max Verstappen begins the new year with a new trainer and the departing Bradley Scanes looks back on four years at the Red Bull driver’s side.
Max Verstappen’s former fitness coach, Bradley Scanes, admitted that he didn’t know who Verstappen was when he started working with him at the end of 2019. Scanes had to google and research a lot about motorsport and Formula One to familiarize himself with the sport. His first F1 race experience was in the Red Bull garage with the mechanics. He met Verstappen in December 2019 and started working with him in January 2020. Their first meeting was in Barcelona, where Verstappen was testing GT cars, and Scanes found that they got along well. Scanes described the key to getting along with Verstappen as being easy-going, honest, direct, trustworthy, and loyal. He has now left Verstappen’s team to focus on spending time with his family.
