{"id":363088,"date":"2025-12-21T19:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363088\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T19:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:39:10","slug":"what-will-max-verstappens-next-career-decision-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363088\/","title":{"rendered":"What will Max Verstappen\u2019s next career decision be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen&#8217;s F1 future has been a consistent topic of discussion over the past several months.<\/p>\n<p>Having been heavily linked with a move to Mercedes earlier in the year amid Red Bull&#8217;s dip in form, Verstappen found himself becoming a late contender in the title fight as the team continued to develop its car.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen currently has a contract in place for the 2028 season but speculation of a performance clause existing in his contract could allow him to leave for another team early.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Dutchman has also suggested he could opt to leave F1 altogether if he does not find the next cycle of regulations enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>But what do you think Verstappen&#8217;s next move will be? Will he extend with Red Bull, leave for another team or walk away from the sport altogether?<\/p>\n<p>Have your say below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen&#8217;s F1 future has been a consistent topic of discussion over the past several months. Having been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-363088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363088","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=363088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}