Max Verstappen was not eager to entertain hypothesis surrounding his Crimson Bull F1 future.
He shot again towards Sky Sports activities’ David Croft who requested him a query about leaving Crimson Bull within the press convention forward of the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Amid Crimson Bull’s tough begin to 2025, rumours have been swirling about Verstappen’s long-term future on the workforce regardless of him being below contract till the top of 2028.
The four-time world champion remained tight-lipped as he confronted a grilling about his future forward of this weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Requested instantly by Crofty if he’s trying to go away Crimson Bull, Verstappen mentioned: “No – I feel simply give attention to commentating and I’ll give attention to driving.
“Then we don’t want to consider every other eventualities.”
Crimson Bull advisor Helmut Marko admitted after final weekend’s horror displaying on the Bahrain Grand Prix that the Dutchman has efficiency clauses in his contract that might enable him to depart on the finish of the yr.
That has solely fuelled speak that Verstappen might be weighing up his future away from Crimson Bull as he continues to be linked to the likes of Mercedes and Aston Martin.
“I don’t know to be trustworthy,” Verstappen replied when requested throughout Thursday’s press convention in Jeddah why Marko had made such feedback.
“I simply preserve working and attempting to enhance the automotive. Naturally Bahrain wasn’t an amazing weekend for us. I feel we had been all fairly upset with that and we simply attempt to carry on enhancing the automotive and provide you with new concepts to strive on the automotive.
“The competitors is hard and that’s how I’m going about my weeks. Simply attempting to enhance my scenario.”
Verstappen is eight factors behind championship chief Lando Norris after solely with the ability to end P6 in Bahrain.
Tight-lipped Max Verstappen offers little away
Verstappen did his finest to dodge a line of questioning on whether or not he would quite Marko not communicate publicly about his future.
“I feel we had actually good chats in the previous couple of weeks with the folks in regards to the automotive,” he mentioned.
“We’re all very a lot aligned – we’re simply attempting to enhance the scenario. It doesn’t change something so we simply preserve going.”
Verstappen additionally moved to close down the hypothesis when he was requested why he has not been linked with Ferrari.
“I don’t know. Lots of people are speaking about it, besides me,” he firmly responded.
“Like I mentioned earlier than I simply need to give attention to my automotive, working with the folks within the workforce.
“That’s the one factor I’m enthusiastic about in Method 1 in the meanwhile and I’m very relaxed.”
The 27-year-old added: “I’m blissful I’m simply not very pleased with in fact our automotive.
“However that goes for everybody. All of us need to be higher. I feel there is no such thing as a secret about that, so that’s what we try to enhance.”
