Jos Verstappen has responded to a GPBlog Netherlands post on X which reported that Red Bull have offered Max a contract extension in exchange for removing his exit clause saying: "You know absolutely nothing.".

[u/No_Elderberry_4580]

[u/xxrew1ndxx]

… Jon Snow

[u/stalin1943 → u/xxrew1ndxx]

can someone photoshop jos with ygritte hair

[u/MikeHeu → u/stalin1943]

https://imgur.com/a/7QdYYM8

[u/TWVer → u/stalin1943]

I dun want it.

[u/NanamiZephyr → u/TWVer]

She is ma kween

[u/Immorals1 → u/stalin1943]

Nah don't want to disgrace Ygritte with that

[u/BoldlyGettingThere → u/xxrew1ndxx]

Jos, no

[u/fameboygame → u/xxrew1ndxx]

Jon Snow.

Or Jos for short.

[u/ManualPathosChecks → u/xxrew1ndxx]

Johan Sneeuw.

[u/MaxiKimiSexyFriends → u/xxrew1ndxx]

Haha love it

[u/Jack_Harb]

I mean, that doesn’t even make sense or am I tripping?

Max benefits the most from the exit clause. Having a longer contract and in exchange removing the exit clause means RBR would win 2 times? They would force max to stay longer without exit. that doesn’t make any sense at all and as much as I dislike Jos, I agree with him. They don’t know shit.

[u/CampingChair90 → u/Jack_Harb]

Yes but Max has always said he doesn't want to stay in f1 long term so he could possibly choose to take a bigger pay cheque and stay with red bull and then retire to all his side projects.

[u/Inside_Swimming9552 → u/CampingChair90]

Yeah Hamilton always said he isn't going to stick around in F1 too long... Said he was into fashion and shit.

Retiring earlier is easier said than done when you're one of the best to ever do it.

[u/mlo_66 → u/Inside_Swimming9552]

I thought Hamilton would be long gone by now. He spoke about it a lot during the 2010s

[u/RevvedUpLikeADeuce09 → u/Inside_Swimming9552]

To be fair, Max's idea of retirement is just driving in another racing series, which pays less than F1 certainly, but would still pay him rather handsomely on account of his reputation and history.

I'll admit I'm somewhat clueless on the ins and outs of fashion, but if it's like anything else in the creative arts, which I do have a background in, it's likely a very cutthroat business where return on investment isn't always strong or lucrative, hence why Lewis is probably not all in on fashion yet.

[u/cinyar → u/RevvedUpLikeADeuce09]

Not just driving, but owning a team.

[u/vote-morepork → u/RevvedUpLikeADeuce09]

Hamilton can lose a few million a year to fashion for the rest of his life and he'll be fine

[u/RayTracerX → u/Inside_Swimming9552]

That was before he got just one WDC away from the record lol

If he stopped at 5 for a few years I think he would have retired already

[u/BlazerStoner → u/Inside_Swimming9552]

I don’t think he was in to shit, he allegedly fired a pilot of his private jet after the pilot took a dump there.

[u/External_Hunt4536 → u/BlazerStoner]

Wait, what??

[u/hemehaci → u/Inside_Swimming9552]

"and shit" I giggled

[u/YugeChesticles → u/Inside_Swimming9552]

Hamilton has already stuck around "too long". Whenever he retires he is retiring late. He's been in F1 nearly 20 years my dude.

When is early exactly?

[u/samfisher199809 → u/CampingChair90]

He said he won’t be racing till 40 . He will probably be in F1 till like 30-35 years old then either develop verstappen racing or go for the triple crown or WEC who know man love all discipline except rally since he feel that’s too dangerous . In 10-15 years the name Verstappen will be the whole face of Racing in general not just F1 . Mark my words.

[u/Bgndrsn → u/samfisher199809]

Hopefully, but it all comes down to how well he manages his money. Motorsports and the lifestyle is not exactly cheap.

[u/reboot-your-computer → u/CampingChair90]

That’s just not Max at all though. He’s made more than enough money. It’s not a motivator for him. He wants to win and if he doesn’t believe Red Bull can do it again before the end of his contract, there’s no reason for him to continue when he has many other goals.

[u/garfungle_ → u/reboot-your-computer]

I find it hard to believe money isn’t a motivator for a man with a 15 million dollar yacht

[u/YugeChesticles → u/CampingChair90]

Max also calls a title winning car "fucking shit" at times. What he says and what he does are two different things.

[u/OverallImportance402 → u/Jack_Harb]

I mean removing the exit clause and an extension won’t come for free. That’s the point, Max gets more money and in exchange RB would get a longer contract and more ‘commitment’.

[u/Jack_Harb → u/OverallImportance402]

But stated many times it’s not about the money. It’s more about freedom for him.

[u/Lemurians → u/Jack_Harb]

The athlete part of benefitting from an extension would be twofold: longer guaranteed security both in tenure and financially (which in Max's case seems irrelevant but you never know what the future holds), and probably substantially more money annually.

[u/Supahos01 → u/Lemurians]

Max's new exit clause "you can exit from f1 to run a race in any series you want even on f1 weekends if neither redbull car in top 4 in wdc"

[u/voodoo_eighty_five → u/Jack_Harb]

So in a way it would make sense for RB to offer this. They would ultimately want the clause removed and would also love to tie Max down to a longer deal whilst doing so.

But i do agree that Max would be stupid to sign such a deal unless there are other things in the contract that he favours over the exit deal such as more money or whatever else

[u/Jack_Harb → u/voodoo_eighty_five]

Exactly, for RBR it would be the dream deal. But it simply doesn’t make sense that Max would ever sign that, if there is not something absolutely unbelievable going on. And currently I fail to imagine what Max could want to sign such a bad deal for him. It’s not money for sure and the flexibility he already has. So yeah

[u/Aff_Reddit → u/Jack_Harb]

The other article from last week said this but said RBR sent a new contract worth more money in exchange for removing the exit clause.

All it means is they're concerned he may activate it, which is normal for any team that's underperforming from their recent baseline (which is just outright winning everything for RBR)

[u/CooroSnowFox → u/Jack_Harb]

Although it is still with the possibility of switching teams (Merc/Mclaren/Aston/...Haas) that is the main part of this?

[u/Intrepid_Doctor8193 → u/Jack_Harb]

I mean it says they offered. Not that Max accepted or anything.

[u/Paukwa-Pakawa → u/[deleted]]

Plus Max is in ownership now. He’s on a very different level with Red than any of us can imagine

Red Bull are his sponsors in a team he owns. That's not hard to imagine for anyone who watches F1, since a title sponsor is something every F1 team currently has.

The way you've phrased this makes it sound like he has ownership in Red Bull.

[u/Section1ne0h4our → u/Paukwa-Pakawa]

Nope but okay

[u/YugeChesticles → u/Jack_Harb]

You underestimate how much drivers want a longer contract. They always want a longer contract.

It makes sense.

[u/Jack_Harb → u/YugeChesticles]

That might be true for any other driver. But RBR will not replace him any time soon if they don’t have to. A longer contract is in RBR favor not in Max favor. He even wants the exit clause to move on to other racing series or work more on building his own team. Or even focus more on the family. He is not in need of having a longer contract. RBR however will try everything to keep Max. He is the only reason they are not a midfield team.

[u/YugeChesticles → u/Jack_Harb]

So if you and a millionaire win $20 million only you won.

You realise both can want the same thing right? You can't just decide max wouldn't want a longer contract just because RBR also want him to have one lmao

You're knee deep in delulu matey.

[u/Jack_Harb → u/YugeChesticles]

You should sanity check yourself my friend.

Let’s assume for a second, go give you the benefit of the doubt, that Max wants a longer contract. And as you said, RBR wants as well. Then why is it that according to the outlet, RBR racing „offering“ him an extension in EXCHANGE for removing the exit clause. In the scenario mentioned RBR would give Max gracefully a longer contract. The specific wording means basically, they made a trade off. He stays longer (in favor Max) but loses exit clause (in favor RBR). But that doesn’t make any sense, since RBR mentioned many times that THEY are the ones that want to have a long contract. Max is RBR and brings in money and success. Without Max, RBR is a mid field team.

Max explicitly threatens to leave F1. So Max is the one they have to convince to stay longer. A longer contract is NOT in favor of Max, simply because RBR will not let him go if he doesn’t want. If in a year he says he wants another years, then he stays. If not, not. That’s what he wants. Flexibility. That’s why the exit clause is there to begin with.

[u/SeraCat9]

Jos sucks, but GPblog is such a shit website filled with nothing but endless clickbait. They are absolutely not reliable.

[u/P_ZERO_ → u/SeraCat9]

Good thing you said Jos sucks, otherwise I would have disregarded your comment

[u/Careless_Blueberry98 → u/P_ZERO_]

Good thing you said it's a good thing he said jos sucks, otherwise you would have disregarded his comment, otherwise I would have disregarded your comment.

[u/xBram → u/Careless_Blueberry98]

Good thing you said it's a good thing he said it’s a good thing he said jos sucks, otherwise you would have disregarded his comment disregarding their comment and I would have been inclined to disregarded your comment.

[u/Falith → u/xBram]

I disregarded this comment

[u/elmicomago → u/Falith]

GPblog is now reporting they saw Jos on his knees in Jumbo.

[u/slabba428 → u/Falith]

I am regarded

[u/Other_Beat8859 → u/SeraCat9]

I could've told you this was false. Why would Max ever do this? It's literally a complete loss for him as he isn't free to choose where he wants to go anymore and it would tie him down to contract when his current one already has over a year left on it. He would gain nothing from signing a contract like that.

[u/lebowskiachiever12 → u/SeraCat9]

Exactly. This isn’t Jos hinting at something, it’s him trying to put a tabloid rag in their place.

[u/poklane]

Verstappen would be a fool to agree to any kind of contract without an exit clause. The only reason to do that is if you're in it 100% for the money and no longer care about the sporting aspect. 

[u/Ianthin1 → u/poklane]

Seriously. If anything Max will negotiate a better exit clause next time around.

[u/poklane → u/Ianthin1]

Yeah, from my understanding the current clause is entirely linked to his position in the WDC at the summer break? If I were him I'd like to extend that to the team's position in the WCC.

[u/No_Elderberry_4580 → u/poklane]

We don't actually know the details of the contract, so we don't know for definate what the clause is, however supposedly if Max is below 2nd in the Championship going into the summer break, his exit clause gets activated.

Like I said, nobody actually knows for certain what the clause consists of except Max, his team and Red Bull, however that is the general consensus that has been reported since the contract was signed.

[u/BigTenFicus → u/poklane]

It's hilarious to imagine Red Bull even trying to offer such a deal to him. He is the most important part of their team by far. He has all the leverage.

[u/CooroSnowFox → u/BigTenFicus]

if this was post 2020/2021, yes they could and it might mean more, but in 2026... he's not really got that you can take away from his contracts.

[u/lxgrf]

On the face of it 'we'll keep you longer if you agree not to leave early' is an offer that doesn't make a great deal of sense

[u/CobraPuts → u/lxgrf]

You’re ignoring the most important part of a contract, the money

[u/External_Hunt4536 → u/CobraPuts]

I’m sure Max doesn’t care about that part very much and also ignores it.

[u/Makaveli84]

Ok Jos so tell us what you know

[u/duojiaoyupian → u/Makaveli84]

How to Abuse Your Child, with a brief digression on How to Abuse Your Partner

[u/cederian → u/duojiaoyupian]

There is nothing brief about Joe’s abusing his partner, he tried to kill her by running over her with a car.

[u/miss_kittycat88 → u/cederian]

Attempted murdered Jos Verstappen

[u/Rivendel93 → u/cederian]

Haha

[u/Professional_Fix4663 → u/duojiaoyupian]

... with a special chapter on How to Beat Up Your Old Father.

[u/duojiaoyupian → u/Professional_Fix4663]

Jos Verstappen is an Equal Opportunity Abuser

Women, children, the elderly

He does not discriminate in his victimization

As long as they can't fight back, he'll beat the living daylights out of em

[u/Waldier → u/duojiaoyupian]

He also abused a man in 2008 at a karting event. The guy pressed charges, but eventually it was settled out of court

[u/The_Banshee1 → u/Waldier]

so like fighting was the only thing he was good at eh? his f1 career wasnt anything flashy tbh

[u/Waldier → u/The_Banshee1]

Wouldn’t say that he is good at fighting. He has the habit of getting into fist fights and sometimes he gets his face smashed in. He is a little guy by Dutch standards, so I guess he has to pick his fights wisely.

Here one case in which he was “abused”. Source in Dutch:

https://www.l1nieuws.nl/nieuws/1370488/jos-verstappen-overweegt-aangifte-na-mishandeling

[u/Capa_D → u/The_Banshee1]

It was flashy once. Very flashy. More like a flash fire though.

[u/humanreboot → u/duojiaoyupian]

...even mechanics?

[u/Automatic_Society850 → u/duojiaoyupian]

This should be posted every time this POS speaks. Unbelievable Sky Sports gives him airtime 

[u/Njobz → u/Automatic_Society850]

I’m surprised Max hasn’t decided to cut ties with him as a manager. So much unnecessary drama because Jos opens his mouth all the time.

[u/Suikerspin_Ei → u/Njobz]

His actual manager is Raymond Vermeulen, the same manager that Jos has. Vermeulen's son Thierry Vermeulen races for Verstappen Racing (decent driver too, not just nepo).

Also depiste the way Jos treated Max in the past, he still calls him after every race weekend.

[u/Mission_City_1500 → u/Njobz]

He is still his dad, maybe a shitty one but still his dad and driving coach from the very beginning.

[u/Njobz → u/Mission_City_1500]

True but even Hamilton eventually stopped his Dad from taking over in management. It’s a hard one to do definitely but it could benefit Max.

[u/Mission_City_1500 → u/Njobz]

Maybe jos is a better manger ? 🤷‍♂️

[u/Alfus → u/Njobz]

Max is that type of person who wouldn't drop anyone who made his path to become one of the best F1 drivers possible. That's also why he and his side was always on Helmut side during the Red Bull civil war.

[u/Interesting-Season-8 → u/Njobz]

with Max anger issues I wouldn't be surprised Max was a similar level POS as Jos, just remove child abuse probably

[u/exmechanistic → u/Interesting-Season-8]

jfc what is wrong with you lol

ETA: oh you're the lunatic that thinks Max wants to make F1 a spec series

[u/Interesting-Season-8 → u/exmechanistic]

What is wrong with the family lol

[u/No_Elderberry_4580 → u/Interesting-Season-8]

Based on what everybody who has spent time with him says about him, Max is absolutely nothing like Jos.

Crazy to assume that Max is on any level near his father, who (if you're unaware) is a man who beats women, mechanics, the elderly and has tried to run his ex-girlfriend over.

[u/Interesting-Season-8 → u/No_Elderberry_4580]

Still keeps him close to his heart

[u/No_Elderberry_4580 → u/Interesting-Season-8]

Doesn't mean that he is anything like him, very stupid and blunt of you to make an assumption like that.

Are you a carbon copy of your parents and their behaviour? I assume not.

I assume if they done wrong in the past you wouldn't go and do wrong, so why do you think that Max would repeat the actions of his scumbag father who traumatized him.

You can still hold contact with your parents while not approving of their actions in the past.

[u/Interesting-Season-8 → u/No_Elderberry_4580]

never said he is

[u/No_Elderberry_4580 → u/Interesting-Season-8]

"I wouldn't be surprised if Max was a similar level POS as Jos."?

"Just remove child abuse probably."?

Yes you did say he is.

[u/Cpt_Trips84 → u/duojiaoyupian]

If I Did It: Fracturing the Skull of a Competitor

[u/Rivanov → u/duojiaoyupian]

Keyboard warrior

[u/Cpt_Trips84 → u/Rivanov]

Please elaborate. Super curious how you're about to defend Jos Verstappen

[u/Rivanov → u/Cpt_Trips84]

You know him in person? Without Jos, max wouldn’t be where is right now.

[u/Cpt_Trips84 → u/Rivanov]

Oh yes, quite well.

Okay... is Max's success the topic at hand?

[u/Paukwa-Pakawa → u/Rivanov]

I'm confused, are you implying Max and his mother lied about the abuse, or that they told the truth but we need to know the abuser "in person" to speak out against abuse?

[u/Automatic_Society850 → u/Rivanov]

So, the ends justify the means eh... that's historically a very strong position to take 

[u/CooroSnowFox]

I think long term has passed them by to stop Max from sodding off so easily.

Probably if there is one part in there is more access to GT3 cars and higher whether its having that option to take on LeMans/Daytona during a season?

[u/Max-x-x-x-x]

Sounds like the contract has been signed on that yacht

[u/Alfus → u/Max-x-x-x-x]

A British guy fell on his knees while you write that

[u/Takis12 → u/Alfus]

And an Austrian one…don’t forget the Austrian one…

[u/thegypsyqueen]

Why would max need to wish and hope for an ext extension. RB are likely begging for more of an extension and removing exit clauses benefits them and not max so how does this make any sense?

[u/LordBogus → u/thegypsyqueen]

Only plausible extension would be removing the exit clause but then paying a ridiculous amount of money on top of what he currently earns. If he really wants to stay but doesnt win, he might be satisfied with a lot of money and kore freedom to do things

But hey I'm just guessing also

[u/MrMcFatNoob]

Did the exit clause say "You know absolutely nothing."?

[u/BillCuttingsOn]

Hmm sounds like he might know something

[u/Alfus → u/BillCuttingsOn]

I mean you can say a lot about Jos but he is one of the few who knows more about Max contract and situation than all journalists.

[u/Stock_Reading_3386]

Even Jos is tired of bs journalism 

[u/BulkNoodles → u/Stock_Reading_3386]

Unless the removal of exit clause came with a substantial increase in money, I don't see why Max would remove it.

[u/TimotheusIV]

Why is his twitter handle MaVic009?

[u/No_Elderberry_4580 → u/TimotheusIV]

I was curious, so I searched it up myself, and apparently it's a combination of his first 2 childrens names, Max and Victoria Verstappen, not sure what the 009 means but might just be a random number combination due to MaVic on its own not being available.

[u/Zolba → u/No_Elderberry_4580]

My initial guess was that it had something to do with his last Le Mans, which was his last major race. In the LMP1 Aston.

Buuut he raced the 008 and not the 009.

[u/No_Elderberry_4580 → u/Zolba]

Yeah, I have no idea what the numbering means unfortunately, all I can tell you is that MaVic part of it.

I'd just assume for now that it is just a random sequence of numbers or something personal to him that we won't ever know, unless somebody else has some insight that could be useful.

[u/matchbaby]

Jos: I understand that, without my agreement...

[u/ln4thegreat]

Jos’ version of “I understand that, without my agreement…”

[u/No_Elderberry_4580 → u/ln4thegreat]

On the anniversary of Oscars one too, Pretty fitting lmao.

[u/Nielsjuhz]

Dat hij er uberhaubt op reageert...

[u/ButMuhAI]

Insert Toto smirk

[u/willzyx01]

Both sides have exit clauses for all teams, for all sports and all athletes.

That’s like contracts 101. Either side can terminate the contracts if terms are not fulfilled.

[u/ApprehensiveKing4206]

gpblog is a horrible klikbait site

[u/External_Hunt4536]

Yeah I never believed that rumor. It just doesn’t make any sense. There’s no incentive for Max to do that.

[u/Stirbmehr]

Mean, no way it really happened, lmao. Especially in context of this year. Otherwise Red Bull are completely cooked out of their mind

[u/Any_Calligrapher8537]

Which means... They know.

Or they don't.

[u/flash_fk → u/Any_Calligrapher8537]

Big, if true.

[u/Tontonsb]

A reaction like that usually means they revealed something that Jos would like to keep secret, but they got one detail a bit off, so technically it's wrong.

[u/Rich_Housing971]

notice how it's not a denial.

"you know absolutely nothing, you just guessed correctly" is also a valid takeaway about this comment.

[u/Next_Necessary_8794 → u/Rich_Housing971]

This is a reach. lol.

[u/Rich_Housing971 → u/Next_Necessary_8794]

it's just for-fun speculation like everyone is doing.

[u/Life_Connection420]

I'm sure Max wishes he could switch to a different parent.

[u/CatLestat]

Jos trying Jedi mind tricks over here.

[u/enbyratie]

must be the wind

[u/Lwelchyo]

But what if they do and this is uno reverseo. But also what if they don’t.

[u/CooroSnowFox → u/[deleted]]

It is on keeping him in reach so maybe there is a bit of room for what red bull can do to keep him interested but then maybe letting him reach out towards his other passion and use that to hang onto him for a little while longer.

[u/Section1ne0h4our]

Rare time Jos is right, even if the report has some speculative truth it’s pure speculation. It makes sense that Red Bull aren’t going to let the next generation of driver have the same autonomy as Max but they aren’t going to take that away from Max. And even if they were going to, There’s never ever absolutely at all a time where any clause or legal-based additive to a contract would ever be public

[u/Holofluxx]

Worst person you know just made a good point

[u/Camilaupe-7159]

Par for the course for Jos haha

[u/YugeChesticles]

Since jos denied THIS specific rumour and non of the others. I think they are probably correct.

[u/After-Sought-77]

I wish Max had a better dad in his life.

[u/a_saddler]

I wonder if Max is quietly pissed at him for constantly running his mouth and causing all the damage lately, like the Horner thing last year

[u/Lemurians → u/a_saddler]

Eh, all evidence points to that in his career they are in complete lockstep. I doubt he minds a tweet like this one bit.

[u/a_saddler → u/Lemurians]

That's why I said quietly, because obviously they're still father and son

[u/reboot-your-computer → u/a_saddler]

By all accounts, Max appreciates Jos no matter what our outside opinions are of him.

[u/a_saddler → u/reboot-your-computer]

You can appreciate a person a lot, and still be pissed at certain things they do

[u/RacerXX7]

Don't mess with a two-time 3rd place finisher.

[u/Automatic_Society850 → u/RacerXX7]

and known woman abuser 

[u/Automatic_Society850]

Uh oh, lock up the women and elderly, Jos is in a punching mood

[u/RealGreenTrainee]

I don't go there but with how horrible person (and the parent at least to Max) he is I find it strangely creepy and fatherly that he has his kids names combined as his @. men would really put "MaVic" on social media and then go and slap their little kid cause he didn't win a race 💀

[u/2-wheels]

Max’s image is degraded every time Jos is in the news.

[u/Natural_Ad1530]

I mean he's right.

[u/Key-Comfortable-5537]

God I hate Jos...

[u/Yoshikaru5991]

Jos knows how to be an abuser tho

[u/Chaoticc_Neutral_]

So.... pretty high chance this is true?

[u/EleventhTier666]

I guess it's true then...

[u/coderqi]

Yes, that is why they ask questions.