Toto Wolff insists 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen requires “time” to co♐nsider w♔hether he will quit Red Bull.

Mercedes must find a replacement for F🌳errari-bound Lewis Hamilton for next year, and a stunning new option briefly appeared on the driver market in the shape of Verstappen.

The Red Bull driver’s future unexpectedly became up for debate after it was revealꦓed that he can activate a contractual clause to leave his team, if Helmut Marko first exits.

Merced✤es team principal Wolff was asked if Verstappen might go to Mercedඣes.

He replied to Sky Sports: “If I would know…

“🐻Well, at the end, Max is in the quickest car. This is what a driver is always goi𒅌ng to look at.

“He’s in a fantastic place in his ca🦄reer. It’s a decision thꦆat is up to him.

“‘Is it an en♒vironment that I’d like to change? If yes, where would I like to go?’

“The trigger, for him maybe thinking about other options, is because they have some wobbles going through their t🐎ime.

“We have to give him time to th🎀ink how he wants to sort out his future, without giving it a push from our side.”

Verstappen admitted at the F1 Australian Grand Prix that it was “nice to hear” Wolff was opening the doorဣ to Mercedes for him.

But Verstappen insisted: “I don’t think about any other thing 🦩because it’s pretty fixed where I am. And that’s also where I want to be.”

He is contracted to Red Bull until the end of 2028 and is already in a great position to claim a fourth F1 champꦺionship in ꧋a row this season.

Red Bull - who have been mired in controversy off-track all year due toܫ the situation surrounding Christian Horner, which then engulfed Verstappen and his father - had a below-par day in Australia on Friday.

Ve🅷rstappen was kept off the top of the timesheets in practice by Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.