F1 Gossip: Max Verstappen agrees £40m-a-year ‘super contract’ with Red Bull

In the latest F1 Gossip, Verstappen agrees new 'super contract', Ferrari make major engine progress, and Mercedes eye up Red Bull's "interesting" sidepod design...
F1 Gossip: Verstappen agrees £40m-a-year ‘super contract’

- F1 world champion Max Verstappen has agreed a new 'super contract’ that will see him remain at Red Bull for the foreseeable future in a deal woꦍrth £41.7m (€50m) a year () 

Tౠhat is according to a report in De Telegraaf♏ by Dutch journalist Erik Van Haren, who is very close to the Verstappen camp. Van Haren reports that Verstappen is on the verge on signing a deal for the next four-to-five years. 

Final agreement 🐎between the two parties wasꦕ understood to have been agreed during last week’s opening pre-season test at Barcelona and an official announcement could come as early as this week. 

- Ferrari has reportedly made major progress with its new internal combustion🌟 enꦏgine for 2022 that puts it on a par with Mercedes and Honda in terms of total power output () 

- Despite being forced to end its pre-season test at Barcelona early, Fernando Alonso is confident Alp💙ine has made a “step forward” with its new power unit for the 2022 ཧseason () 

- Mercedes technical director Mike Elliot has ad💟mitted the team is looking closely at Red Bull’s “interesting” design concept of the aggressiv💎e new sidepods on its RB18 () 

- F1 team bosses have moved to justify the increasing a♉mount of sp🦩onsorship deals with cytocurrency brands amid concerns over their stability and impact on the environment () 

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- Following Haas’ decision to remove Uralkali’s branding from its livery for🌄 the final day of running at the Barcelona test, the Russian company’s lo🔜gos are also missing from Formula 2 team Hitech GP’s livery for 2022 

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