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Verstappen exit clause may already be triggered
Jul.1 Max Verstappen may soon be free to skip out of his long-term Red Bull contract. To date, it has been rumoured that only dropping to P4 in the drivers' standings by the end of July will trigger the oft-mentioned performance exit clause. But fellow Dutchman and ex-Red Bull driver Robert Doornbos, who knows the quadruple world champion well, has different information. 'He has to be in the top two of the championship halfway through the year,' he told the Pit Talk podcast. 'That is not the case now. 'That exit clause is now activated.' That would go a long way to explaining the sudden resurgence of rumours connecting 27-year-old Verstappen with a switch for 2026 to Mercedes. Jos...
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