Max Verstappen’s manager has told Red Bull that the four-time champion was “not born to compete in the midfield” as his future remains uncertain.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Verstappen’s current deal with Red Bull expires at the end of 2028, but is understood to contain a break clause, allowing him to walk away for 2027 if he is not within the top two in the drivers’ standings by the summer break.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
As it stands, heading into the Austrian GP weekend, Verstappen is seventh in the standings, 60 points behind Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton, who is currently second, and 101 down on leader Kimi Antonelli.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Red Bull has delivered a huge upgrade package to the Austrian weekend, in the hopes of shedding some of the excess weight from the car.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Dutchman has been linked with Mercedes and this week, McLaren, and in addressing his client’s future, Raymond Vermeulen has spoken about the current position the team finds itself in.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Our goal is to see this adventure through together with Red Bull,\u201d Vermeulen is quoted as saying by de Telegraaf.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“The spirit of Red Bull and the spirit of Verstappen are a good fit. But we do need a package that allows us to compete at the front. That has always been the foundation.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Ultimately, Max wasn\u2019t born to compete in the midfield.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“We now have time to focus on the car\u2019s performance. That has nothing to do with leaving or staying. We have agreements, and we\u2019re sticking to them.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cLoyalty has always been our starting point, for both parties. But ultimately, you have to be able to fight for victories.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen’s manager has told Red Bull that the four-time champion was “not born to compete in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":["post-764428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","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\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}