Dutch driver Max Verstappen, current Formula 1 world champion, has renewed his contract until 2028 with the Red Bull team, the team announced on Thursday.
Verstappen’s renewal
Verstappen, whose contract was due to expire at the end of 2023, “has signed a long-term contract renewal that will keep the 24-year-old Dutch driver with the Oracle Red Bull Racing team until the end of 2028,” Red Bull said in a statement.
“I love this team and last year was just amazing, our goal since we got together in 2016 was to win the World Championship and we’ve done it, so now it’s about keeping the number (1) on the car for a long time.”declared the pilot, quoted in a statement.
According to information from the Dutch newspaper ‘De Telegraaf’ published this Wednesday, Verstappen will become the highest paid F1 driver with an “estimated salary of 50 million euros (about 55 million dollars) per season”.
Arrived in F1 in 2015 with 17 years at the wheel of Toro Rosso, the subsidiary team of Red Bull, Verstappen rose in 2016, winning his first GP with Red Bull in Spain, becoming the youngest driver to win a race in historyat 18 years, 7 months and 15 days, one of his several precocity records.
With 141 Grands Prix contested, with ten of his 20 victories achieved in 2021, the driver born in Belgium, but with Dutch nationality, won his first world championship title last year beating the 37-year-old Hamilton.
The 2022 season kicks off on March 20 in Bahrain.
AFP
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