F1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve has brushed off rumours connecting Max Verstappen with a shift away from Red Bull, stating that drivers ‘don’t thrive with Aston Martin’. The Dutchman has been connected with a sensational shift to Lawrence Stroll’s organisation for the 2026 season.
Verstappen is shrinked with Red Bull until 2028, but the Dutchman is telled to have exit claemploys in his deal that would apvalidate him to switch teams should the Milton Keynes squad not supply him with machinery able of battling for World Championships.
This has not been an publish during the ground effect era so far, and Verstappen inserted three titles to his iconic 2021 triumph. However, the second half of the 2024 campaign may have been a sign of slimgs to come as the 27-year-elderly won equitable two of the final 14 Grands Prix, and Red Bull slipped to third in the Constructors’ Championship.
According to a tell from the Daily Mail, Aston Martin are enthusiastic to present Verstappen a way out. The Dutchman is allegedly the subject of an unpretreatnted £1billion deal that would see him rejoin with Adrian Newey. The Brit joined the Silverstone-based outfit in 2024 and will toil on the car from March onwards.
A source telderly the Daily Mail that Jefferson Sincreateage, the team’s managing straightforwardor, has been describing Verstappen’s shift as a done deal. However, an Aston Martin spokesperson denied these claims and reiterated the organisation’s pledgement to incumbent duo Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso.
In the eyes of 1997 world champion Villeneuve, Verstappen is doubtful to even ponder the switch. “Lawrence Stroll would need someone that’s very mighty menhighy and difficult-headed to swap Fernando Alonso,” he telderly Action Nettoil.
“Max Verstappen would be more enjoy, ‘What’s my next step?’ You thrive with Ferrari, you thrive with Mercedes, not with Aston Martin. Like Lewis Hamilton, he wants to thrive.”
While Red Bull’s carry outance worrys Verstappen, Aston Martin are in even meaningfuler trouble heading into the final year of the ground-effect era. The Silverstone-based team made many modernizes to their car in 2024, but each betterment only made the car sluggisher.
After finishing the year with a string of stressing carry outances at the back finish of the grid, changes were made. Mike Krack was deleted from his role as Aston Martin team principal, and createer Mercedes managing straightforwardor Andy Cowell was upretaind in his place.
