{"id":877984,"date":"2026-08-31T07:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877984\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:56:11","slug":"klien-says-red-bull-was-never-leaving-f1-without-verstappen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877984\/","title":{"rendered":"Klien says Red Bull was never leaving F1 without Verstappen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(GMM) Christian Klien has dismissed suggestions Red Bull might have walked away from Formula 1 if Max Verstappen (pictured) had decided to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Klien knows the company well, having been backed by Red Bull before it owned its own F1 team and placed at Jaguar in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Dutch magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.formule1.nl\/nieuws\/red-bull-was-ook-zonder-verstappen-in-f1-gebleven\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Formule 1<\/a>, the now 43-year-old Austrian said Red Bull\u2019s commitment to the sport now goes far beyond one driver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelieve me: Red Bull is absolutely not just leaving the sport like that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust look at the in-house engines they build at Red Bull. That is a huge investment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have a circuit and a television station. Much more has been built around Formula 1 than people might realise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, F1 is still the best marketing tool for a brand like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Klien said Verstappen\u2019s new long-term contract is therefore highly important, but not the reason Red Bull remains in Formula 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(GMM) Christian Klien has dismissed suggestions Red Bull might have walked away from Formula 1 if Max Verstappen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-877984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877984","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=877984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}