Former F1 driver Derek Daly has asserted Max Verstappen’s future with Red Bull beyond next year is far from certain amid the team’s dip in form.<\/p>\n
Having enjoyed championship success with Red Bull from 2021 to 2024, Verstappen has found himself in a less competitive position this year with McLaren rising to the front of the pecking order.<\/p>\n
Verstappen has taken three race victories this year, but McLaren’s dominance has kept him out of championship contention.<\/p>\n
It led to speculation he could leave Red Bull at the end of this year and was heavily linked with a move to Mercedes ahead of new technical regulations coming into play next season.<\/p>\n
While the four-time champion has committed the 2026 campaign to Red Bull, Daly is not so sure about his future beyond next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have absolutely no doubt Max is looking around to see where’s the best place for him to land for 2027 onwards,\u201d Daly exclusively told RacingNews365. \u201cWithout a doubt.<\/p>\n
\u201cA driver of Max’s superb ability, what drives him will not be content to sit back in defective equipment.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo for sure, for 2027 onwards, he’s going to be looking to be signed by the best team.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t‘Years before Red Bull cycle back again’<\/p>\n
McLaren has dominated the current F1 campaign, scoring 12 wins in 16 rounds and taking over at the top of the order from Red Bull.<\/p>\n
Pointing to decades gone by, Daly predicted it will be several years before Red Bull rise back to a position of superiority over the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look at the history of racing, look back to Williams, or to Lotus or to Ferrari,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe history of F1 goes up and down, cycles and troughs. Red Bull is going into their trough.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be years before they’ll cycle back again to the greatness they’ve had in the future. Ferrari is in their trough right now.<\/p>\n
\u201cMcLaren just came out of their trough. You can\u2019t argue with history. This is the way the sport has always gone.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s following a normal trajectory. I have to think that Max Verstappen\u2019s dad knows that and Max knows that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re going to try and catch the wave of an uplift trough with whatever team shows that in the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cMercedes was on the high for how long, and now they’re down in their trough.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re hoping that these new regulations, their engineers will design a car that’ll have them on the ascent to more dominance. That is the fascination about F1. You just never know.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former F1 driver Derek Daly has asserted Max Verstappen’s future with Red Bull beyond next year is far…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3007,1687,3010,3008,3011,3009,831,372,6537,832,3006,3005,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-141755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","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","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}