Max Verstappen’s future was the hot topic of conversation as the Formula 1 paddock reconvened at Spa for the Belgian Grand Prix. But there were plenty of other intriguing stories bubbling at the penultimate race weekend before the summer shutdown.<\/p>\n
Verstappen keeps his cards close to his chest<\/p>\n
Four-time World Champion Verstappen<\/a> has a contract with Red Bull<\/a> that runs until the end of 2028, but the Dutchman has yet to confirm whether or not he will stick with them until the end of that term.<\/p>\n What Verstappen does next has been more of a talking point recently after he suffered mechanical failures in successive race weekends in Austria and Great Britain, while it also emerged his management had spoken to McLaren<\/a> about the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen’s future was the hot topic of conversation as the Formula 1 paddock reconvened at Spa for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-804724","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\/804724","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=804724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}