Dutch rookie Max Verstappen is clearly the hottest property on Formula 1's driver market, and despite Red Bull (and Toro Rosso) pull out reports the 18 year old and his minders are not worried.
Verstappen is under firm contract to Red Bull, but the energy drinks company is threatening to pull out of F1 over its engine supply crisis.
Verstappen's father Jos and manager Raymond Vermeulen have already been spotted in conversation with Mercedes, and amid the same 'three cars per team' rumours, Max has also been linked with a potential move to Ferrari."
"For me personally," Max is quoted by the Dutch newspaper AD, "it does not really matter what team I drive for. I just want at some point to sit in the fastest one and go for the championship.
"Hopefully that will be with Red Bull, as they build very strong cars at the moment. So, who knows," he added.
"With Red Bull if you compared the years before the hybrid engines it was not really an engine championship, it was a car championship," Verstappen said.
"The last few years is more about the engine than the car performance - they became world champion. Everyone knows the struggles Renault had and has but we have to wait and see if it was the right decision, we don't know yet."
The most logical outcome for young Verstappen is that Red Bull will stay in F1 and he will spend a second year with its junior outfit Toro Rosso.
But De Telegraaf quotes him as saying: "When you do well and get good results, things can change very quickly. That happened to me in F3."
"When I started, I had no idea I would be in Formula 1 a year later. So things can change very quickly," added Verstappen who this year, when he made his grand prix debut in Melbourne, became the youngest ever F1 driver.
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