Jon Noble

Do you go for one of the McLaren duo, Oscar Piastri, Lando Norris?

Wouldn't it be too bad?

Could George Russell be a possibility if Kimi Antonelli keeps pushing on a bit and causing some...

kind of unsettled or gets that momentum going within Mercedes.

Or coach Kimi Antonelli just to annoy Toto.

Yeah, or they can rev up that Mercedes rivalry and extract Kimi.

I think there are plenty of options.

I think a lot will depend on the contractual terms and jumping on disillusionment elsewhere.

And it also depends what Max is doing because I'd be very surprised if Max...

isn't racing for Red Bull next year, but is racing for another team in Formula 1, I wouldn't be so surprised if he's not racing for Red Bull, sat on the sidelines, and then in a holding pattern, waiting to see where the ground lies for 2028.

In which case, that will cloud Red Bull's decision, because then their best option would be to, you've got a rules reset, things should have bedded down, the things that Max doesn't like with the 26 regs could have gone wrong.

And there's no better place that he'd probably like to be than in a very successful Red Bull team for 28.

That's the impression I get, yeah.

Or is it an absolute genius move from Max Verstappen, well knowing that Red Bull's advantage is in the ICE, well knowing that if it can neutralise Mercedes' advantage by increasing the ICE power and pulling back the electric harvesting, which is the big fundamental change in the regs, that if he goes flat out against these regulations,

gets momentum behind rule changes.

Suddenly what was off the table for 28 is now on the table for 27.

So has he just pulled an absolute political blinder and engineered a situation that makes him think, yeah, we can get back to the front in 27?

I think there is a desire to keep Max Verstappen inside it.

And I'm convinced that he...

him speaking out so much triggered the momentum amongst other drivers to speak out.