Irritated Max Verstappen tells Crofty “focus on commentating”

Max V♔erstappen tight-lipped as rumours about his Red Bull F1 future swirl.

Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen was not keen to entertain speculation surrounding his Red Bull F1 future.

He shot back against Sky Sports' David Croft who asked him a question about leaving Red Bull in the press conference ahead of the൲ F1 Saudi Arabian Grand P𒆙rix.

Amid Red Bull’s difficult start to 2025, rumours have been swirling about Verstappen’s long-term future at the team despite him being under contract unꦰtil the end of 2028.

The four-tim🐼e world champion remained tight-lipped as he faced a grilling about his future ahead of this weekend’s Saudi Arabian Gra🌼nd Prix.

Asked directly by Crofty if he is looking to leave Red Bull, Verstappen said: “No🅠 - I think just focus on commentating and I’ll focus on driving.

“Then we don’t need🐟 to think about any othe💮r scenarios.”

Red Bull advisor He💎lmut Marko admitted after last weekend’s horror showing at the Bahrain Grand Prix that the Dutchman has performance clauses in his contract that would allow him to leave at the end of the year♌.

That has only fuelled talk that Verstappen could be weighing up his future away from Red Bull as he continues to be linked to th♏e likes of M𒁏ercedes and Aston Martin.

“I don’t know to be honest,” Verstappen repli♑ed when asked during Thursday’s press conference in Jeddah♔ why Marko had made such comments.

“I just keep working and trying to improve the car. Naturally Bahrain wasn’t a great weekend for us. I th꧅ink we were all pretty disappointed with that and we just try to keep on improving the car and come up with new ideas to try on the car.

“The competition is tough and that’s how I go about my weeks. J𝓀ust trying to improve my situat🧔ion.”

Verstappen is eight points behind championship l🧜eader Lando Nor♛ris after only being able to finish P6 in Bahrain. 

Tight-lipped Max Verstappen gives little away 

Verstappen did his best to dodge a line of questioning on whether he would rather Marko not speak publiclyꦿ abo🌼ut his future.

“I think we had really good chats in the last few weeks with the people a꧃boutꦛ the car,” he said.

“We are all very much aligned - we are ju🌃st t🌃rying to improve the situation. It doesn’t change anything so we just keep going.”

Verstappen also moved to shut down the speculation 🍌when he was asked why he has not been linked with Ferr﷽ari.

“𒀰I don’t know. A lot of people are talking abo꧃ut it, except me,” he firmly responded.

“Like I said before I just want to focus on my car, working with the people i🗹n the team.

“That’s the only thing I’mꩲ thinking about in Formula 1 at the moment and I’m very relaxed.”

The 27-yea๊r-old added: “I aꦇm happy I am just not very happy with of course our car.

“But that goes for everyone. We all want to beℱ better. I think there is no s💖ecret about that, so that is what we are trying to improve.” 

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