Toto Wolff isn't mincing words when it comes to who he wants to replace Lewis Hamilton on Mercedes' F1 team.
Mercedes-AMG is waiting to see if reigning F1 Max Verstappen chooses to leave Red Bull before making any other driver moves for the 2025 season, boss Toto Wolff said in a"He's the leading driver," Wolff said, adding that Verstappen may not leave Red Bull, where he's contracted until the end of the 2028 season.
Despite Red Bull's current competitiveness, some cracks are beginning to show. Verstappen has said he would leave if certain key personnel—such as motorsport advisor Helmut Marko—were to leave, according to Racer. Mercedes, meanwhile, is looking for a driver to replace seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, who. And Wolff did not rule out future talks to put Verstappen in that seat.
"I think we want to take our time and see where Max's thinking goes and at the same time monitor the other drivers," Wolff said. One of those other drivers is Carlos Sainz, the only non-Red Bull driver to win a race in the past 18 months, who is being booted from Ferrari to make way for Hamilton.
McLaren boss Zak Brown has said the team has received multiple approaches from Red Bull personnel, something Wolff confirmed to Racer, but claiming that it is"not anything out of the ordinary."
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