Albers believes that
Zak Brown and
Toto Wolff are collaborating to lure Verstappen to Mercedes.
‘’Those two, Zak and Toto, can fuel the fire a bit. Their only goal is to make life as difficult as possible for Christian Horner, especially in England. Horner obviously loves the attention from all the newspapers. Zak Brown and Toto seize their moment. Brown can say more, as he is more on the sidelines.’’Christian Horner has admitted that there are performance clauses in Max Verstappen's contract and manager
Raymond Vermeulen has responded to the rumors about Verstappen. However,
GPblog knows that Verstappen would prefer to stay with Red Bull, but a clause can be triggered if he is ranked lower than third place in the drivers' standings going into the summer.