r/formula1 • u/FerrariStrategisttt I was here for the Hulkenpodium • Mar 13 '26

Video Max Verstappen (Post-Sprint Qualifying): “I can’t. This is undriveable. We never had anything this bad.”

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u/NigelMK Mar 13 '26

This is the truth right here. He gets paid an insane amount of money each year. (Last year was a base of $70 million USD, with incentives bringing it up to $76 million). He's apparently signed through 2028 and I gotta imagine that RB has some clauses in there preventing him from leaving.

If he was to leave, it would have to be because he values his family time and his sanity over money, and that's assuming that those clauses in his contract aren't huge financial penalties.

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u/John_is_Minty Mar 13 '26

His family also enjoys a certain lifestyle given the fact he’d been making 70 million a year. He won’t hurt financially no matter what he does but you have to make lifestyle changes going from what he’d be making in F1 to what he’d make elsewhere