Max Verstappen claims that 24 races a yr is simply too many, as he as soon as once more hints at early retirement.
Having beforehand advised that the Dash format may trigger him to contemplate an early retirement from the game, the two-time world champion has now expressed unease with a 24 race calendar.
Yesterday the FIA introduced the schedule for 2024 which sees the season get underway in Bahrain at first of March and conclude in Abu Dhabi in December.
With China again on the schedule, it is a 24 race season, the busiest within the sport’s historical past, and Verstappen is not completely happy.
“It’s too many for me,” he advised reporters at Silverstone right now, “however we simply should cope with it.
“I believe it is a little more logical the way in which it is deliberate at the least,” he added, referring to the try to regionalise the schedule as a part of the game’s drive in the direction of better sustainability, “I assume that is higher for everybody.
“Extra issues have to come back collectively for me to make my thoughts up if I keep longer or not,” stated the Dutchman, who’s contracted to Purple Bull to the top of the 2028 season. “All these items are positively not serving to, for certain.”
At Mercedes, George Russell joked that the Dutchman is solely holding out for more cash.
“He’s the very best paid on this grid and rightly so for what he’s attaining however I believe it’s all an enormous tactic, his menace of retirement,” stated the Briton.
“I hope he does not,” he added. “I hope he stays for so long as I keep as a result of I need to struggle in opposition to the very best drivers on the planet.”
