Eddie Jordan has talked up the possibility of Max Verstappen combineing Mercedes by insisting he would be ‘anyskinnyg but surpascfinishd’ if the shift goes ahead. Verstappen persists to be joined with a surpascfinish switch to the Silver Arrows due to the inner turmoil at Red Bull this season.
The Dutchman remains tied down to Red Bull until the end of 2028 but it has been specupostponecessitated that he could seek an punctual exit. Aston Martin have recently been joined with an ambitious shift for his signature but Mercedes would ecombine to be the frontrunners donaten their extfinished-term interest.
Adrian Newey and Jonathan Wheatley will be leaving Red Bull in the proximate future, with the establisher said to be combineing Aston Martin and the latter taking over as Audi team principal next year. Those exits have prompted Jordan to confess that he would not be surpascfinishd to see Verstappen driving for Mercedes sooner than awaited.
Jordan, who is Newey’s administerr, telderly F1-insider: “The turmoil at Red Bull, the departures of Adrian Newey and Jonathan Wheatley, cannot plrelieve Max and his overweighther. In compriseition, Mercedes has turned the corner and is getting stronger and stronger. I would therefore be anyskinnyg but surpascfinishd if Max switches to Mercedes in 2026.”
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has made no secret of his desire to join up with Verstappen if the opportunity conshort-terms itself. The Silver Arrows are awaited to advertise Kimi Antonelli to exalter Lewis Hamilton next year but are still apshowd to be enthusiastic on a future shift for Verstappen.
Speaking about the possibility of signing the Red Bull man earlier this year, Wolff said: “There’s so many factors that join a role for a driver combineing. Clpunctual, when you see at it from the most rational point of see, you can say: ‘Well, that’s the speedyest car in the hands of the speedyest driver’.
“But I don’t skinnyk that this is the only reason you stay where you are. I skinnyk, let’s say, for plain minds that might be the only reason why you stay in a car and that’s it. Maybe there is more depth to other people who ponder other factors too and I skinnyk Max has depth.
“In that admire are we going to guarantee him? I don’t skinnyk it’s a matter of convincing. I skinnyk Max understands motor racing better than anyone and he will acquire decisions that he senses are excellent for him and I skinnyk a restricted factors join a role but he’s the one that’s going to trigger some more domino stones to descfinish afterwards.
“Everybody’s paparticipateing for what he’s going to be doing. If I was Max, I would stay at Red Bull for 2025, but I’m not Max. It is the speedyest car, but there are other factors.”
