{"id":434499,"date":"2023-04-28T06:13:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T10:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&p=434499"},"modified":"2023-04-28T06:13:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T10:13:22","slug":"verstappen-considers-quitting-f1-after-his-contract-expires-in-2028","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/verstappen-considers-quitting-f1-after-his-contract-expires-in-2028\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen considers quitting F1 after his contract expires in 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"

Max Verstappen<\/a> conceded that he is contemplating quitting the sport after his current contract with Red Bull expires at the end of 2028.<\/p>\n

The statement comes after extensive criticism from the reigning world champion towards the path the sport has taken, and in particular – the extension of the Sprint race, that along with the long 23-races calendar put extra strain on the drivers.<\/p>\n

Verstappen head into the 4th round of the Championship with 15 points advantage over his teammate Sergio Perez<\/a> in second and is red-hot favorite to clinch not the race, but the whole championship as well.<\/p>\n

However, the 25-year old has been openly pessimistic about the Sprint races in general (which we will see this weekend) and was rather unenthusiastic when asked about the new format.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we keep expanding the calendar and the whole weekend is that long, at one point you question yourself “is it worth it?” he said.<\/p>\n

“I do like racing, I do like winning. I know that of course the salary and everything, you have a good life, but is it actually a good life?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think sometimes you get to a point in your career where maybe you want to do other stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that I have a contract until the end of 2028, and then we’ll review again. But I do feel that if it’s getting at one point too much, then it’s time for a change.\u201d<\/p>\n

All this raises questions as to how drivers are being treated and is it time to loosen up the f1 environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Max Verstappen conceded that he is contemplating quitting the sport after his current contract with Red Bull expires at the end of 2028. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":434500,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17288,17289,17768],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Dutchman is unhappy with the new way the sport is taking","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434499"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=434499"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=434499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}