Tommy

i don't think it really says much about red bull i do think that this isn't i still think they're very much in struggle town and uh it makes me question yeah when when he leaves is max gonna want to like stick around and and have a new engineer like what what's the deal there but i don't think this is necessarily like uh

This could have easily happened anyway, even if Red Bull were still a pretty strong team.

You see people leaving top teams all the time and going to another rival top team.

So Red Bull are not the powerhouse they once were, and I do fully believe they're going to struggle a lot this season.

It's going to take them a lot to return, but I don't feel like that is the underlining reason why GP's gone here.

it's probably because he wants a new challenge in a new team and has been offered a massive role and a lot of money to go to a legendary team like McLaren.

Which is mad because it seems to be their chassis that is the main issue rather than the engine, which is the opposite to what we thought was going to happen.

You do wonder as well with that Red Bull side that you're talking about is...

Are they going to struggle now to attract people to that team when you hear all this turmoil of like, all these people have left, Max Verstappen isn't happy and wants to leave.

We've had so many talks about if Max leaves, can they get a big name in?

Will they be able to do that?

And then if they are stuck in the midfield...

you know are they going to be able to attract these enormous names that can help turn them around maybe not because every other team up and down the grid are going to want to be doing that and there's people that are having a much better time of it and there's this whole perception of everything that happened with Horn I think this ship has definitely been steadied now but that it was you know not the best place to be and now

Are they going to be able to attract big names when it feels like they are on that, as you say, like a downward slope?

Glad we haven't just recorded our 2029 prediction.

I can understand why people's maybe first thought of this news is, oh my God, Max is going.

This confirms it.

I don't think that's the case.

Maybe he does back up the fact that he's probably going to at the very least leave Red Bull when his contract ends.

I can't see him going past it.