Max Verstappen’s brother-in-law and former F1 driver Nelson Piquet Jr. has revealed that the Dutchman will make a decision on his future in August.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Verstappen has been heavily linked with a shock move to Mercedes, with recently axed Red Bull boss Christian Horner, Helmut Marko and his manager Raymond Vermeulen having all refused to deny that an exit could happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The four-time world champion himself has also refused to confirm if he will continue with the Milton Keynes-based outfit next year, despite having a contract until the end of 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A move elsewhere has been linked due to Verstappen having several exit clauses which can be activated this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If he does move, Mercedes is the likely option, as outlined by Piquet.<\/p>\n
“It was not Mercedes’ weekend [at Silverstone]. Maybe Max will be there next year,” Piquet Jr. said on the Pelas Pistas podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Oops, is that right?”, Piquet Jr. was asked by the podcast’s presenter, to which the former Renault F1 driver back-stepped, “No, because they talk to everybody, everybody knows that, right? But it’s an option, everybody knows that anyway.”<\/p>\n
According to the Brazilian, Verstappen will decide whether to stick with Red Bull or leave the Austrian outfit next month.<\/p>\n
“I think he will make a decision in August,” revealed Piquet, before adding his thoughts on what the 27-year-old will opt to do, “He will change.”<\/p>\n
Should Verstappen join Mercedes, the general expectation is that it would be to replace George Russell, due to the time and money the Silver Arrows has invested into Kimi Antonelli.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Piquet also expects this: “If he goes there, it will be Kimi Antonelli [alongside him]. That’s for sure.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen’s brother-in-law and former F1 driver Nelson Piquet Jr. has revealed that the Dutchman will make a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[859,4199,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,4200,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-255629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-formula1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motorsport","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114833495391356643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}