Jun.2 Max Verstappen is losing one of his longest-serving and biggest personal sponsors. Last year, Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo's CEO and owner Fritz van Eerd was embroiled in a money laundering scandal. Almost all of Jumbo's sporting sponsorships were subsequently scrapped, except the highest profile one – 25-year-old back-to-back world champion Verstappen. But according to Algemeen Dagblad newspaper, that is now changing – with news that Jumbo will also stop working with the Red Bull driver at the end of 2023. Van Eerd has now departed, and his successor Ton van Veen says Jumbo needs to look away from sports sponsorships. 'Max is of course a folk hero, but he acts on the...
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