Verstappen: There's always space for Vettel at Red Bull

Max Verstappen said helium would invited chap four-time Formula 1 champion Sebastian Vettel backmost to Red Bull aft the German spoke of perchance succeeding advisor Helmut Marko astatine the team.

Austrian Marko, 82, is simply a erstwhile racer who was blinded successful 1 oculus aft a chromatic pierced his visor during the 1972 French Grand Prix successful Clermont-Ferrand, has a declaration until the extremity of adjacent year.

Vettel, 37, won consecutive titles with Red Bull from 2010-13 and retired successful 2022 aft stints astatine Ferrari and Aston Martin.

"It's much than mean that idiosyncratic that has achieved truthful overmuch with Red Bull, has been brought up by Red Bull [should return]," Verstappen told reporters astatine the Austrian Grand Prix connected Thursday erstwhile asked for his thoughts.

"In a consciousness there's ever a spot available, right?

"I deliberation besides Seb ever kept a truly bully narration with Helmut anyway, adjacent erstwhile helium left. I didn't cognize that of people they were talking but I'm definite that there's ever a abstraction for Seb successful immoderate benignant of form."

Marko was a adjacent confidant of the team's precocious Austrian proprietor Dietrich Mateschitz, serving arsenic his trusted typical successful the paddock arsenic good arsenic besides taking complaint of the young operator programme.

During Vettel's epoch the outspoken advisor was portion of a starring trio with main Christian Horner and method ace Adrian Newey, who is present astatine Aston Martin.

"We're successful interaction astir this, though possibly not truthful intensively oregon in-depth yet, but it's possible," Vettel told Austria's ORF tv recently.

"He's already said a fewer times that he'd stop, but he's inactive here, and I privation him each the champion truthful that helium stays astir for a precise agelong time."

Marko told Austria's Kleine Zeitung connected Wednesday that Vettel was pursuing everything precise closely.

"The question of succession is besides 1 of the issues," helium said.