Max Verstappen appeared to drop an enormous F1 retirement trace on the eve of the Bahrain Grand Prix.
The Dutchman’s quest to win a fourth world championship in a row begins within the Middle East on Saturday, March 2. However, in his pre-match race convention, he supplied his views on the hectic 2024 F1 calendar, that includes a record-breaking 24 Grand Prix and an additional six dash weekends.
Last yr’s 22-race calendar left everybody concerned within the ten groups feeling worn out by the top of the season in Abu Dhabi. George Russell, Carlos Sainz and Valtteri Bottas all requested for one thing to be performed concerning the heavy workload.
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With two extra races deliberate for 2024, Verstappen admitted he is considering his future within the sport. His present contract with Red Bull runs out in 2028, and at 26, he isn’t ruling out racing in different collection as a substitute of staying in F1. When Motorsport.com requested if fewer races would make him keep in F1 longer, Verstappen mentioned: “Absolutely.” He defined that it is all about having a greater high quality of life, stories The Express.
“At a certain point, I think you’re just kind of done with it. The racing itself is fun, but everything around it with the travelling and with the marketing days, at a certain point, it eats away at you. Then it also doesn’t matter what you earn. In the end, it’s more about being happy with what you do.”
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The Dutchman later added: “Everyone is different and from the age of eight or nine I have been living according to a full schedule. Or at some point you start thinking ‘Is this still worth going away from home for 24 race weekends a year, plus simulator days and the marketing days’.
“Those are issues you do not actually get pleasure from as a driver, however after all you do them as a result of it is a part of the job. But sooner or later, you are performed with that.”
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“When you get up, you have to be able to give a hundred per cent,” he defined. “At the moment this is not a problem, but at some point, you have seen it here. Every time I come on, I want to win and I want to give my best.”
“But I’m not like ‘I have to stay here until I’m an eight-time world champion’. I don’t have that. I have many things I’m working on for the future, outside Formula One.”