Max Verstappen He has repeated several times that he does not want to spend many more years Formula 1and this Sunday, then F1 Singapore GPset off all alarms.
The Dutchman did not mince his words when he indicated that issues such as the penalty given to him by the FIA, where he will be forced to do community service for swearing in a press conference, could condition his future decision.
“Of course. Yes. I mean, things like this will really decide my future”Verstappen said. “When you can’t handle yourself anymore and you have to deal with this kind of nonsense… I think now, I’m at a stage in my career where I don’t want to be like this all the time. It’s really tiring”he added, threatening a possible withdrawal from F1.
“Of course it’s great to be successful and win races, but when you’ve done all that, winning championships and races… then you want to have fun too. Everything goes to the limit. All, even the last ones on the grill. But if you have to deal with all this kind of nonsense: for me, that’s not a way to continue in the sport, that’s for sure,” ended in a forceful manner.
He has been ‘courting’ this idea for several years.
It will be remembered that Max Verstappen has been repeating for a long time that he does not know how many years are left in F1 and this year he indicated that he may leave the ‘Great Circus’ at the end of his current contract with Red. Bull (2028), although since then, due to his car’s declining performance, he has been rumored to adopt a Mercedes in 2026 or so and has also been linked with Aston Martin.
But Max never hid his desire not to stay longer in F1 so that he could devote himself to other things, other races, such as driving at Le Mans, and focus on his passion for racing his SimRacing team and other aspects of life.
“Sometimes I wonder if it’s worth it,” he said last year, reflecting on the increasing number of races on the calendar.
“People may think that I make a lot of money and what am I complaining about, but it’s about your well-being, about how you live things and not about how much you earn,” continued the Dutchman on that occasion. “I feel like I have to do too many things and skip others (that I would like to do), so sometimes I wonder if it’s worth it,” he argued in this regard. “
“In life, not everything is F1,” he also said in other statements “I want to do other things, but I still have a few years ahead of me in Formula 1,” he said in 2022. And now , he repeated. his idea, making it clear that things like this weekend don’t help him stay in F1.
Source: La Verdad
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