And although they did Christian horner, team boss Red Bull in Helmut Marko tried to include these rumors in the imagination of the media, but the latter has now announced that there is said performance clause, which will be valid until 2023.
"Yes, there is a performance clause. I don't want to go into details, but it more or less says that if Max can compete for race victories and fight for the title, his contract will be extended or he will stay in the team, otherwise if that were not the case, he would be free. racer," he said Marko, sports boss Red Bull Racing a colleague from the portal F1-Insider.com. This, in all probability, means that he will have to Verstappen's the race car lags behind the fastest on the track the most 0,3 seconds.
Chances are the fastest race car, as has been the case in recent years, again Mercedes. And last year’s biggest rival of silver arrows Red Bull will have to show improvement this year from from the very beginning and add something next, because Verstappen last season averaged for Hamilton lagged by half a second. But Marko is confident: “That’s our goal and I believe in it, not just because of Max, but because it’s in our DNA that we want to win. We are on the right track and I think we can fulfill this clause,”He concluded Austrian.