Jon Noble

Is this the end of Formula 1?

And within one or two races, F1's moved on and attention shifts very quickly.

So while

don't want to lose Max Verstappen if they do lose him there'll be another driver there'll be another superstar that comes in it's a strong enough team to attract the very best and it may take a year it may take two but there will be someone that comes in and fills that vacuum and then we'll be sitting here in five years time saying wow I can't imagine a Red Bull without X driver being absolutely central to it when they slotted in and became the new beacon around which that Max Verstappen had before

You'd have thought so, because this is the job of every F1 team, is to know absolutely what everyone's contractual situation is.

Who's happy, who's not happy, what are the conditions, what can you do to get them out, all that sort of thing.

And from Red Bull's perspective, I think you need to go for a top-line proven winner.

You know, could you get...

Charles Leclerc out of Ferrari, for example, would he be a good fit, still young enough, still got a very long run-up?

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.