Max Verstappen has confirmed that he doesn’t see himself returning to Components 1 in a administration function when he decides to retire from racing.
The four-time champion has usually made it clear that he’s within the championship to win and has left the door open to a possible exit if he fails to take pleasure in the brand new laws in 2026 or after his present contract with Crimson Bull ends in 2028.
“I am solely there to win. I am not there to only take part as a result of that for me shouldn’t be sustainable, then it is not enjoyable anymore,” he informed TAG Heuer. “And that is precisely what I am all the time making an attempt to look out for. And in the mean time, that is going very well.”
There was hypothesis about Verstappen taking a administration function within the Milton Keynes outfit sooner or later when he decides it’s time to step away from the driving force’s seat. He has now confirmed he doesn’t have an curiosity on this whereas he mentioned his motivation to deliver sim racers into real-world racing.
“Racing,” he laughed, when requested what he’s captivated with outdoors of racing.
“However then not racing, not even essentially myself, however for instance, considered one of my targets is to deliver a simulator driver into the true world. That has occurred this 12 months already and he is doing very effectively.
“I simply need to attempt to develop that venture naturally as a result of that’s undoubtedly one thing that I take pleasure in rather a lot. And out of doors of Components 1 for the longer term as effectively as a result of I like being in F1 as a driver, I do not assume I’d ever come again in F1 in a administration function as an instance like that.
“However in a distinct class, extra like endurance-style, sure I do see that occuring and creating that chance for younger drivers that wouldn’t have the funds or the chances of entering into an actual racing automobile to attempt to stimulate that from the simulator world as effectively.”
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