“Item about early termination of the contract will lose validity if Max stays in the top 4 championship”, – WRITE: Sport.ua
Currently, the four -time world champion is the third place in the total standings, with 136 points. He is ahead of George Russell (99 points) and Charles Lecler (79 points) and has 57 points over Ferrari’s pilot. If Ferstappepen will keep more than 50 points over the fifth place in the standing before the end of the Grand Prix of Spain, its point of early withdrawal from the contract will no longer operate.
Max’s contract is valid until the end of 2028. According to sources, after the internal struggle for power, the Bull was revised in 2023, a point was removed in particular, which allowed him to leave the team in case of release of Helmut Marco Advisor.
The current item has a clearly defined deadline – the end of June. If Ferstapppen remains among the four best pilots after the Austria Grand Prix, he will finally lose the opportunity to terminate the contract ahead of time.
In the off -season Ferstappen was actively associated with Aston Martin, but since the beginning of the season, these rumors subsided. Instead, information about his potential transition to Mercedes is increasingly appearing. The speculation is fueled by the situation with George Russell’s contract – the renewal of his Mercedes agreement has not yet been announced.
Despite this, Mercedes assures that negotiations with Russell are following the plan. Mercedes Toto Wolf in Monaco stressed that the issue would be resolved promptly.
