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Originally Posted by thebishman
Bet Redbull had to pay Max a ton of money to stay, plus I’d imagine Lewis told Toto he didn’t want him at Mercedes?
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I can see that ... rumor has it Jos Verstappen was in talks with both Merc and Ferrari. From what I've read Max's contract is upped to about 20 million per year. Pretty nice especially since he only extended it until 2020, and he's young enough that the extra couple years isn't a big deal, especially since he's with a top team ... although I highly doubt he'll be in champion contention with Red Bull (as I don't see Renualt improving the PU enough in the short term).
What I did find to be an interesting though was Ham and Ferrari. Ham kinda eluded to Seb's contract extension all but ended any thoughts of him going to Ferrari in the near future.
F1 ... it's such a soap opera behind the scenes.
(just read a piece from Drive about how Seb and Ferrari colluded and how Alonso got played when he tried to hardball Ferrari)