Max Verstappen has played down Helmut Marko’s claim that there are “very big” concerns over his future at Red Bull.
Marko, Red Bull’s 81-year-old motorsport adviser, admitted in Bahrain last weekend that he fears the four-time world champion might walk away unless things at the team improved. The Austrian was speaking after a disappointing race in which Verstappen – who is under contract until 2028 – finished a distant sixth and afterwards complained that “everything that could go wrong did go wrong”.
The 27-year-old was not just unhappy with his car, but also his pit stops, which were uncharacteristically poor from the normally slick Red Bull team.