Verstappen has a contract with Red Bull until the end of 2023, but for months, the team and the driver have been exploring the possibility of renewing it before it comes to an end. The energy drink team wants to shield its top star, and in turn the Dutchman wants to make a salary jump after being world champion.
In fact, as soon as he crossed the finish line at the last Abu Dhabi GP that crowned him, Verstappen said on the team radio that he wanted to “keep doing this for ten or fifteen years” in the Austrian formation. The top adviser, Helmut Marko, also made it clear that the renewal of the #33 contract was one of the priorities.
Therefore, it is not that there is a lack of interest on the part of either party, but in recent weeks it had not yet transpired that a new deal had been closed. However, De Telegraaf reported exclusively on Wednesday that Max Verstappen and Red Bull, the team for which he has been competing since mid-2016, have agreed a new contract that binds him to the energy drink team for another four or five years.
That would mean that the 24-year-old driver would be at Red Bull until 2027 or 2028. In addition, according to the same newspaper, he will earn an astronomical salary of between 40 and 50 million euros a year, which would immediately make Verstappen the Dutch athlete. highest earning of all time.
So far there has been no official announcement from Red Bull about Verstappen’s contract renewal. The team did not want to respond to De Telegraaf and from the driver’s orbit, both father Jos Verstappen and his representative Raymond Vermeulen also refrained from commenting. Red Bull is expected to announce confirmation of Verstappen’s new contract later this week.
For his part, the other team driver, Sergio Pérez, signed a one-year renewal last year at the end of August, and his contract ends this year.
The other drivers whose contracts expire this year and have to renew in the coming months are Carlos Sainz with Ferrari, Yuki Tsunoda with AlphaTauri, Fernando Alonso with Alpine, Lance Stroll and Sebastian Vettel with Aston Martin, Guanyu Zhou with Alfa Romeo, Nikita Mazepin and Mick Schumacher with Haas and Williams drivers Nicholas Latifi and Alex Albon.
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