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Based on The Race, George Russell and Christian Horner have held exploratory talks eyeing a possible collaboration for the longer term with Max Verstappen rumours of a possible exit from the Austrian workforce looming overhead.
The Crimson Bull Workforce Principal and the Mercedes driver have to date merely relayed one another’s conditions with no tangible negotiations per se going down as of but.
Russell’s contract expires this season, and his plan, as he has said many occasions earlier than, is to stay with the Brackley-based outfit. While Mercedes F1’s workforce boss and CEO, Toto Wolff, has lauded his driver time and time once more, no contract has but been supplied for his now lead driver.
Wolff has at all times reffered to his driver line-up of Russell and Mercedes prodigy, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, as a greater than passable state of affairs ‘in the intervening time’, by no means actually decanting his desire of his present driver line-up and shutting the door on a possible Verstappen transfer to Mercedes.
It is typically urged that Verstappen has a say within the selection of his teammate at Crimson Bull. The demotion of Liam Lawson to Racing Bulls, in opposition to Verstappen’s needs, earlier this season was proof that this is not the case. Verstappen additionally would not oppose Russell’s arrival.
GPblog has realized that Verstappen is totally unconcerned concerning the state of affairs of Russell turning into his teammate at Crimson Bull. The Dutchman is aware of he is the most effective driver on the grid and he – as he has achieved with earlier teammates – will considerably outperform Russell, simply as Verstappen demotes a teammate to a supporting function yearly.
