Toto Wolf puts an explicit interest in bringing Max Verstapen to Mercedes in 2027

Mercedes Toto Wolf president expressed explicitly interested in targeting Max Versaben for the 2027 F1 season. A lot was made and written about the increasing proximity to the two camps, and there were many who expected the Dutch driver to withdraw the trigger for 2026 as well.

Max Verstapen signed a long -term contract with Red Ball This extends to 2028. However, this contract has a certain exit sentences that are active at different points of the season, and if the driver wants to leave the team, he can do so.

At the same time, the Austrian team has been struggling with a consistent decrease in shape in the past 18 months. He is no longer a competitor, and over the year 2026, with the team building its power unit for the first time, there was not much optimism in the project.

At the same time, there was an increasing near between Max Verstapen and Toto Wolf. The two were seen spending the summer vacation together in leaked pictures, which led to future partnership speculation.

During all this, George Russell Its delayed extension of its contract, with the reason why the expected reason is WOLFF’s unwillingness to give it a long -term contract. In a development, Russell will not feel better, in an interview with Telegraph, explicitly interested in employing Max Verstapen for 2027.

The Austrian was interrogated from the future of the Dutch, as it will analyze this field in 2026 and make a call on the basis of this. Wolf shouted that he hoped Mercedes was the situation in the best situation, and ended up in Verstapen. He said ,

“We hope to be this team, and the team that has the best credentials. Then I will just have to pay ten percent of what I have paid this year. This is exactly what I said to his manager, Raymond Vermolin, haha! He said:” You are cheap Austrian. “

Toto Wolf puts Max Versabpeen-Mercedes alliance opportunities by 50 %

While Wolf admits that he hopes that Mercedes will end with the presence of Max Verstapen in the team, he is still pragmatically enough to know that the partnership may not happen. When talking about how everything appears in F1 to timing, Wolf claimed that there is a 50 % chance of a partnership. He said ,

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He added,

“This is a 50 percent chance. And the other 50 percent is the opportunity that we will drive together at some point in our career, if it is suitable for each of us and fits both sides.”

It will be interesting to see what is happening here after that because while the two parties act well, if Mercedes does not appear as the most convenient option in 2026, Verstapen does not go to this team.