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

- 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 ()
)- 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
The ownership of has been transferred back to Oliver Oakes after the sanctions imposed as the result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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No Uralkali logos will be present on the Hitech cars across their different teams.

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