Max Verstappen thinks one of many worst issues about Formulation 1 is its annual race calendar.
When requested by Sport Bild to call one factor in regards to the sport that makes “no sense” to him, the triple world champion answered: “The variety of races.
“The calendar is way too full,” the Pink Bull driver added. “24 grands prix are an imposition on everybody who’s a part of the paddock. 17 or 18 can be a great quantity.”
Pink Bull group advisor Dr Helmut Marko doesn’t agree.
“It doesn’t hassle me a lot,” the 81-year-old Austrian instructed Osterreich newspaper. “I can chill out splendidly on lengthy flights.”
There isn’t any doubt, nevertheless, that 2024 has been an intense season for Verstappen, 27. Pink Bull has been marred by in-fighting and declining efficiency, triggering fixed rumours that he may even resolve to leap ship.
When requested how typically he thinks about his future, Verstappen instructed Bild: “By no means, truly.
“I’m proud of what I’m doing now and I wish to hold doing it. I’m not searching for a change. That’s why all of the hypothesis is pointless. I’m the one who finally has to resolve.
“And for the time being I don’t see any want for motion.”
Nevertheless, Marko has admitted on a number of events that Verstappen’s profitable contract by 2028 comprises exit clauses.
When requested about them by Sport Bild, the Dutch driver answered: “I do know precisely what’s in my contract and what choices there are. It’s my obligation to know that. You need to by no means signal one thing in the event you don’t know what you’re signing.
“However I usually don’t discuss my contract in public.”
Though his automobile is not the favorite, Verstappen remains to be main the drivers’ standings by 47 factors over Lando Norris, with the pair’s off-track friendship coming underneath growing pressure as they conflict on monitor.
Verstappen denies McLaren’s Norris is his ’hardest opponent’.
“Lando is an excellent driver,” he stated, “however there isn’t one large rival who makes my life hell. The groups are too shut to one another for it to all the time be a one-on-one battle.
“Each weekend is totally different,” added Verstappen. “Some automobiles work higher on some tracks than others. It’s the identical with drivers.”
Sport Bild questioned, nevertheless, if Verstappen can be sleeping extra restlessly at night time if Norris’ teammate Oscar Piastri was his predominant title rival, because the younger Australian is taken into account to have ’stronger nerves’.
“No,” Verstappen insisted. “I all the time sleep nicely.”