{"id":33665,"date":"2025-08-17T22:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/max-verstappen-confirms-he-is-staying-with-red-bull-for-2026-season\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T22:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:13:07","slug":"max-verstappen-confirms-he-is-staying-with-red-bull-for-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/max-verstappen-confirms-he-is-staying-with-red-bull-for-2026-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen confirms he is staying with Red Bull for 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mercedes are his managers as well as his employers, which complicates the questions over negotiations regarding his contract with team principal Toto Wolff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Whenever we come to an agreement we will get it done but it has to work for both of us,&#8221; Russell said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Something we need to think about. What do they want and what do I want?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have been in a bit of a unique situation for the last few months, I don&#8217;t have huge power in this agreement. And maybe interests were not aligned for the last six months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But its my job to perform and reduce that risk<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I still trust Toto and the team will continue to support me, but for Kimi and me the last six months have not been the most assuring, and that is conflicting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russell said he never had any real doubts about his future because he was performing to a high level, but he wants to take the forthcoming three-week summer break to think more carefully about his position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Conversations [about a new contract] have started, but we are now heading into the summer break,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Toto and I have spoken a lot this week, but we haven&#8217;t spoken once about the contract, because we&#8217;re both trying to solve the car&#8217;s performance and get the team in the right place. And that&#8217;s genuine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And I personally want to go into the summer break and enjoy the only two weeks off I have in the year. I don&#8217;t want to be thinking about contracts. And there isn&#8217;t really a major time pressure now from my side, nor from Mercedes&#8217; side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/c0j91zjd251o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes are his managers as well as his employers, which complicates the questions over negotiations regarding his contract with team principal Toto Wolff. &#8220;Whenever we come to an agreement we will get it done but it has to work for both of us,&#8221; Russell said. &#8220;Something we need to think about. What do they want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33667,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33665\/revisions\/33667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}