{"id":118961,"date":"2025-09-04T19:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118961\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T19:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:23:06","slug":"max-verstappen-wont-rule-out-a-future-move-to-ferrari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118961\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen won’t rule out a future move to Ferrari"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONZA, Italy — Max Verstappen<\/a> said it’s impossible to rule out a move to Ferrari in future, even if he is unsure he will race long enough in Formula 1 to get the opportunity.<\/p>\n

Verstappen’s future has been a talking point all season, although he has committed himself to current team Red Bull for 2026 at least.<\/p>\n

He spent much of the year being linked with Mercedes<\/a> but would command the attention of any team with a free seat. Lewis Hamilton<\/a> is contracted until the end of 2026 at Ferrari and Verstappen suggested an opportunity for him to move there might exist down the line.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the Italian Grand Prix — Ferrari’s home race — Verstappen said, as reported by Motorsport.com<\/a>: “They have two drivers contracted for next year, so there is no discussion anyway. Now, is there a chance? Yes, there are a lot of chances in life for any kind of decision.<\/p>\n

“Of course, at the moment that is not on the horizon, but who knows? I don’t even know how long I’m driving in Formula 1, so there are still a lot of unknowns for me.<\/p>\n

“It’s always very difficult to know what is going to happen, right?”<\/p>\n

Four-time champion Max Verstappen is third in the drivers’ championship, 70 points behind Lando Norris in second.\u00a0Alessio Morgese\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n

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Verstappen has often said he does not know whether he will race beyond his existing contract<\/a> with Red Bull, which runs until 2028.<\/p>\n

His old foe Hamilton, whom Verstappen beat to the drivers’ title in 2021, has struggled since moving to Ferrari this season in what was a much-hyped move coming into the season.<\/p>\n

Bar a sprint race victory in China earlier in the year, Hamilton has not finished on the podium at a grand prix yet.<\/p>\n

Verstappen said it was wrong for people to assume any driver could switch teams and immediately be competitive.<\/p>\n

“I cannot look into how he [Hamilton] was operating at Mercedes, how he feels personally, what is going on also in the [Ferrari] team right now. I don’t have any information on that.<\/p>\n

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“The thing is, he joined a team that already has a very strong driver with Charles [Leclerc], so it’s never going to be easy to immediately go in there and start beating your teammate who is well integrated, knows the team very well, speaks the language.<\/p>\n

“But these cars can be quite complicated at times to fully understand why you’re quick or not, basically.”<\/p>\n

The speculation over Verstappen’s contract arose over a performance clause in his contract that says he could leave early if he was fourth or lower at the summer break.<\/p>\n

He went into the break third, meaning Mercedes’ interest was moot anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONZA, Italy — Max Verstappen said it’s impossible to rule out a move to Ferrari in future, even…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-118961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}