{"id":435354,"date":"2025-09-19T05:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/435354\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T05:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:43:10","slug":"max-verstappen-to-ferrari-timeline-claim-after-lewis-hamilton-mistake-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/435354\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen to Ferrari timeline claim after Lewis Hamilton mistake uncovered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seven-time grand prix winner Juan Pablo Montoya does believe that Max Verstappen is a future Ferrari driver. But, not before a stop-off at Mercedes first.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Montoya predicts that it will be at least \u201cfive years\u201d before Verstappen<\/a> races for Ferrari, this claim coming after former Ferrari driver Eddie Irvine urged Verstappen to join Ferrari before he is too old, which he believes is the mistake made by Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n

Max Verstappen: A future Ferrari driver?<\/p>\n

Verstappen is under Red Bull contract until the end of 2028, though that has not stopped the rumour mill hinting at an early exit over recent years, with his grip on the Drivers\u2019 Championship almost certain to expire in 2025.<\/p>\n

While Mercedes has been the most talked about destination outside of Red Bull, Max\u2019s father Jos also threw Ferrari into the hat.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not that we only talk about it [Mercedes] a lot this year. This year, nevertheless, a bit more than the years before,\u201d Jos recently told Viaplay.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we also talk about Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull. That makes sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Montoya does believe racing for Ferrari is in the F1 future of Verstappen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Max will drive the red car, but probably five or six years down the line,\u201d Montoya told a gambling platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think at some stage he\u2019ll have a chance, but not yet. I think he\u2019ll probably move.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be surprised if he doesn\u2019t move. Unless of course Red Bull does an amazing job.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Max has matured and shown more maturity this year and we see a calmer Max. You don\u2019t hear the outbursts as much. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s because he\u2019s preparing psychologically to be somewhere else. Who knows?\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, Montoya expects Max to tick off that entire trio of Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull mentioned by his father.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe obvious next move that you\u2019ll see at some point will be to Mercedes,\u201d Montoya predicts. \u201cBut then Ferrari. That\u2019s what I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on Max Verstappen from PlanetF1.com<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc49 Ranked: Max Verstappen\u2019s top 10 F1 Grand Prix victories<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc49 Who exactly are Team Verstappen and how influential are they?<\/a><\/p>\n

How Ferrari\u2019s driver line-up will evolve over the coming years remains uncertain. Lewis Hamilton is yet to impress after his blockbuster move from Mercedes.<\/p>\n

The sweeping changes coming to the regulations for 2026 offer the potential for redemption, but if Hamilton still struggles to shine in Ferrari red from that point on, the questions being asked about his future will only grow louder.<\/p>\n

In the opinion of Eddie Irvine \u2013 four times a grand prix winner with Ferrari \u2013 Hamilton \u201ccame a bit too old\u201d. He would \u201clove\u201d Verstappen to join Ferrari without repeating that perceived Hamilton mistake.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack in my day, you had Michael [Schumacher] come, he was seen as by far the fastest driver,\u201d Irvine continued, speaking with Sky F1. \u201cBecause of that, Rory Byrne came, Ross [Brawn] came, and that whole team was built around the fact that Michael was another world.<\/p>\n

\u201cA bit like Verstappen is now, where if Verstappen went somewhere, he could take a lot of people. Without the whole system together, everyone\u2019s, you know, at the same level. It\u2019s tough, Formula 1\u2019s tough.<\/p>\n

\u201cMichael gave up a lot, like Michael probably gave up two, three, maybe even more world championships to leave Benetton to go [to Ferrari]. Because the first few years, people have no idea how bad it was at Ferrari. Michael, he knew there was no point for him. He was so much better than everyone else. He just decided, \u2018I\u2019m going to go there. I\u2019m going to see what I can do,\u2019 which was amazing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd he got there. But people forget, it took four years. He was always in the vicinity, but it was just, you could see he was driving the wheels off the thing to try and be there. So it was very easy for it not to happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love Verstappen to come to Ferrari. I think the two of them together would be sensational. I hope he doesn\u2019t leave it too late like Lewis did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read next: Max Verstappen makes feelings clear over potential Ferrari move after Jos Verstappen reveal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven-time grand prix winner Juan Pablo Montoya does believe that Max Verstappen is a future Ferrari driver. But,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,997,707,4200,225,1073,12,122477,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-435354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-ferrari","10":"tag-formula-1","11":"tag-formula1","12":"tag-home-page","13":"tag-max-verstappen","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-popular","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115229373422939480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435354","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=435354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}