Max Vastapane fed up, but not with red bull

Listen to a brilliant response of Max Vastapane to win a blow in Suzuka and win, or pole again in Jeddah, and you still listen to a person who prefers in competition in Formula 1.

Listen to their recent media interviews and you listen to a person who dislikes the dislike of being a Formula 1 driver.

Vastapane has never been a man designed for the headlines, but a racer that cares about just competing in the fastest race cars. But being an F1 driver, it is only much more than that, and ever since the saga around his team around Christian Horner-13 months ago-and Red Bull has also started suffering on the track, Verstopen has been a focal point of continuous politics and rumors around his future, with renewed, newly interested in renewed, newly interested. Mercedes And Big Money Offer from Aston Martin, who has already cut the Adrian Navy and Honda.

Red Bull’s disastrous Bahrain weekend, on which the team’s balance continues with its 2025 car with its tire wear deficit McLaren Highlight and uninterrupted beyond normal levels, inspired the team’s short -term distress negotiations and bend its weather around. It also triggered more noise around the future of Vastapane, not helping by Helmut Marco, Advisor to Red Bull, admitting that she was “worried” about Dutchman’s Red Bull Future, if the team could not give him a more competitive car than Bahrain.

After a much better form of Jeddah, Marco made more excited and, while Red Bull has not magically solved all its problems, is on the way to Emola and Barcelona, ​​which Austrian hopes that the Austrian hopes that the Red Bull will be returned to the hunt on a more consistent basis – and not only on the circuit where McLaren can not flicks his muscles.

But the damage was done, and in the weekend of Saudi Arabia, whispering the whispers, considering a relaxation from F1, spread carefully on Vastapane, understanding to arise from people in their environment, but was not significantly four -time world champions. Are there the same forces who were looking to destabilize Horner and Red Bull, yet are lying in the shadow?

Red bull issues have not yet participated

The patience of Vastapane wears diluted with people speaking in his name and constant barrage of questions that essentially follow it. He shot back at Thursday’s FIA press conference about rumors connecting him to other teams. “I think just focus on commenting; I will focus on driving. Then you don’t need to think about any other landscape.

“Honestly, a lot of people are talking about it, apart from me. As I said earlier, I just want to focus on my car, work with people in the team. It’s only one thing that I am thinking in Formula 1 at the moment. I am taking a lot of rest.”

In his more informal Dutch language session, he was pressed on the noise that is with him and Marco’s comments. “People want to keep goods to write. I can make all this from him,” he said. “And of course, whatever helmut says … Look, I think every driver definitely wants to stay in the fastest car, it is very common. But that does not mean that you should simply run when things do not go in your way.

“They are still working on solving our problems and we are not where we want, but you can all you can start shouting and shouting, but it is not going to help either. I am just trying to do the best and it is completely possible that we have all that we can solve everyone in 2026. But you can’t win everything always.”

This is not to say that Vastapane is guaranteed to stay in the red bull, as he can yet have a point where he will be wooed to trigger a exhaust segment and try his luck elsewhere, perhaps after the 2026 rules reset, after the new world order really understanding, but it is not yet near that point.

“This is just the world in which we live”

Any question on the team switch or sabbatical should also be seen in the context of Vastapane, which is slightly disillusioned with the latest clampdown of the FIA ​​on the driver of the driver swearing and social media. He has always been open about his intentions not to go beyond his current 2028 deal, but can he walk away from the series before?

Not for the first time after its last year’s ‘oath-gate’ in Singapore, Vastapen shortened the FIA ​​Post-RES press conference, especially about questions on the penalty of his five-second time penalty. He said, “The problem is that I cannot share my opinion about it because I can also punish, so it is better not to speak about it. Whatever I say or try to say about it, he can put me in trouble,” he said.

When he was further quizzed by Motorsport.com, he said: “This is just the world in which we live. You cannot share your opinion because it is clearly appreciated, or people cannot handle the whole truth. Honestly, it is better that if I do not say too much. It also saves my time because we already have a lot to do.

“It is honestly how everything is happening. Everyone is super sensitive about everything.

Max Verustapane Still prefer driving formula 1 cars. He does not love being a formula 1 driver.