Max Verstappen still has a lot of ‘question marks’ over F1 future
Verstappen’s current Red Bull deal runs out at 🥀the end of 2028 - when he would be only 31.
It’s a unique situat෴ion for Verstapp✨en given that he made his F1 debut at just 17 with Toro Rosso in 2015.
Ho🎃wever, the Dutchman has increasingly 🀅voiced his frustration with how the sport is changing.
He’s been c🍌ritical over F1’s new sprint format for 2023, while the ever-growing calendar is p🦩utting additional strain on the drivers.
Speaking to Sky Sports in Monaco, he explained why racing♓ in F1 into his 40s is not something that appeals to him.
“I love r෴acing, otherwise I wouldn’t be on the simulator driving other cars but that’s exactly the thing,” he said. “I like to do other kinds of racing, not only F1. I know that I will be 31 when 🔯that’s the end of the contract but I also then already been in F1 for a very long time and it’s a lot of work.
“It’s travelling a lot, not only the races, but in between you’re travelling to the factory, you have marketing commitments. I am a person who loves to be at home. I like to be competitive, I like to win but if you can’t fully motiv🍸ate yourself to get to every race then that’s the point you have to question yourself.
“Do you want to continue? I love Le Mans, I love doing other 24 hour races. I love watching the GT3 cars go around the Nordschleife and all these kind of things I do want to experience in my life -🐻 and I don’t want to do them when I am 40 or 50 because then I am not at the peak of my performance and when I am 31 I am pretty sure that I am still capable of doing great things.
“We will see. It also depends a bit how competitive we’𒀰re going to be over here in ‘28. There’s still a lot of question marks. I don’t want to, when I am at that age, travel 25 races a year and besides that travel to the UK again for simulator work or do an appearance or commitment here and there.
“It's too much at one point. I started 🐭driving when I was four and a half, competitively at seven. At one point I think it’s enough if you’re away that much a year.”
Verstappen did admit if 🧸Red Bull continued to dominate, it 𓄧would be very difficult to leave F1.
“It will be vಞery hard to leave, for sure,🉐” he added.
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