Max Verstappen extends his Red Bull contract to 2023
Linudden is in the house gents
Silly season killed off before it even began. Unless he has some cast-iron release clause, which he surely won't, that means that all the top drivers save for maybe Bottas, are set to stay where they are for 2021. With the longest deal for a driver since the Alonso days, Ferrari have committed themselves to Leclerc's development and if Vettel gets the nod to stay he'll know that Leclerc is going nowhere for five years and have to deal with that.
There's just no way Max would've signed a new deal already if he thought Hamilton was off to Ferrari. No way.
Besides this, merely having one rookie for this season and it being a pay driver there because of daddy in the worst team on the grid isn't a good sign for the future at all. I'd expect Russell to annihilate him completely and maybe he'll finally be able to boot Bottas out from wasting the second Mercedes seat if he does. Having Russell learning from Hamilton is surely a lot more sustainable than a 30-something mid-pack driver who can't overtake nor drive in the wet. He's very fast over one lap sometimes, be he's a one-trick pony.
