Horror moment Max Verstappen's dad flips rally car in terrifying crash revealed in unseen footage
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THIS is the horror moment Max Verstappen's dad Jos crashed and flipped his rally car at high speed.
Disaster struck for the former F1 driver, 53, as he was competing in the Royal Rally of Scandinavia in Sweden.
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Max Verstappen's father Jos suffered a nasty crash on Friday but emerged unscathed
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Jos' rally car rolled after his rear wheels dipped in the gravel
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He cracked the windscreen of his car and caused other damage, being forced to retire
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The rollover crash brought Jos and his navigator Renaud Jamoul's day to a halt earlier than expected last Friday.
The pair started well - they were 18th overall and best out of the Master classification - but came unstuck on stage nine.
Verstappen admitted they entered a corner "too quickly" before ending up in a ditch after their rear wheels dipped in the gravel.
It caused the Skoda Fabia RS Rally 2 to do a 360, suffering damage in the process, with newly released video painting a grim picture.
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The latest clip showed the car with a huge crack in the windscreen, but fortunately, both Jos and Renaud escaped uninjured.
Verstappen said: "I went a little bit too quick into the corner and then I missed the apex, the inside of the corner.
"I was in the loose gravel, on full grass and I couldn't make the corner. Very easy to happen in this kind of rally.
"It was a typical Sweden roll. I flipped it and I was back on the four wheels. Every crash should be a lesson.
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"The roll cage is all fine but the front was a little bit damaged, there was some rear damage and one damper was broken.
"I must say I really enjoyed it, the way of driving. Obviously these people from these countries they used to that, the only driving they do is on these kind of stages."
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It was Verstappen Snr's third-ever start on an unfamiliar gravel surface.
He didn't manage to travel to Barcelona to watch his son Max compete in the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday.
The Red Bull ace endured a weekend to forget after a 10-second penalty dropped him from P5 to P10, and a hefy 49 points behind championship leader Oscar Piastri.
The 27-year-old also picked up three-penalty points after "deliberately" colliding with George Russell on Lap 61, when asked to let the Mercedes driver through after using an escape road.
The punishment moves the Dutchman to 11 penalty points – one point away from a race ban.
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