The future in F1
Formula 1 will return to the track after a long break in the first weekend of May, during which the Miami Grand Prix will take place. It will be at this event that the new technical regulations established at the meeting on April 20 in the presence of the FIA, FOM, engine manufacturers’ CEOs, and team principals will officially come into effect. In the first three races of the world championship, Max Verstappen had on several occasions expressed his dissatisfaction with the regulations introduced this season, combined with the current crisis of Red Bull. At the end of the last GP in Japan, the four-time world champion was very clear about his future, even considering retiring from F1.
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Sabbatical year?
According to other rumors, Verstappen is considering the possibility of taking a sabbatical year, although this option does not convince another world champion like Jenson Button, winner of the world title in 2009. According to the Englishman, speaking on Sky F1, the Red Bull driver would be considering other paths: “Personally, he doesn’t seem like the type to take a sabbatical year. Either he races or he doesn’t. If he wants to stop and do something else, that’s fine too, but I think this will be his last ‘career’ in F1. I don’t think he will take a year off and then come back. I don’t think this is the Max I have come to know.”
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Additionally, Button considered another aspect related to Verstappen’s future, this time linked to the departure of his race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase, who will join McLaren in 2028: “Just a few weeks before the announcement of Lambiase’s move to McLaren, Max said: ‘I can’t even imagine racing with him by my side.’ There is a lot to expect from the driver market in the coming years. Max will always be in the spotlight because at the moment he is driving a car that does not offer optimal performance. We are used to seeing him at the front, but now he is not.”
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