Max Verstappen will not be offered a bumper pay rise by Red Bull as the team is already “close to the limit” with his current salary, according to the team’s advisor and head of young driver development Helmut Marko.
The 24-year-old Dutchman won his maiden Formula 1 world championship at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in December with a last lap overtake on Lewis Hamilton, following a sensational battle between the pair one of the greatest seasons in the history of the sport. The victory did not come without controversy, though, as FIA Race Director Michael Masi’s unprecedented handling of a late safety car period caused by Williams Nicholas Latifi essentially gifted the title to Verstappen.
