After a new report related Max Verstappen with Aston Martin, Jacques Villeneuve warned the quadruple champion that the victories arrive with Ferrari and Mercedes, “not with Aston Martin. “
Although Verstappen has a long -term contract with Red Bull, which extends until 2028, has spent much of the 2024 season of F1 answering questions about a possible step to Mercedes.
Although this did not materialise, the Dutchman signed up for Red Bull with the signing of Kimi Antonelli via Mercedes, the first rumour of 2025 has already surfaced with the Daily Mail saying that Aston Martin’s commercial and marketing director Jefferson Slack courted possible sponsors via Not Easy 4 F1 Verstappen deserves to sign up for the team.
The report, which was “categorically rejected” through Aston Martin, adds that Slack is “to pass” through sponsors like “Max is to register in Aston Martin” in a value of agreement “£ 1 billion”.
An F1 personality that does not see this is the 1997 world champion Villeneuve.
Debating 43-year-old Fernando Alonso’s option to leave Aston Martin and Formula 1 at the end of this season, he believes Aston Martin will want a “very mentally strong and stubborn” man to upgrade the double world champion.
But when it comes to Verstappen being that person, Villeneuve told Action Network: “Max Verstappen would be preferred, what’s my next step?You win with Ferrari, you win with Mercedes, with Aston Martin. Like Lewis Hamilton, he needs to win.
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The Canadian, who made the global name with Williams in 1997, believes the Aston Martin assignment remains a long-term assignment despite the signing through design guru Adrian Newey’s team.
He joined the Red Bull Silverstone team in March, but has already clearly indicated that he focuses on the new cars of 2026.
Villeneuve reckons turning Aston Martin, who last year were P5 in the Constructors’ Championship without a single podium in the team’s results, into race winners, never mind championship contenders, will take time.
“Aston Martin will take time,” he explained.
“I mean the fans, the team. The enthusiasts add two and two and give six. The expectation is that they have signed Adrian Newey and now they can start winning.
“It takes time to build the people around you. It takes time to design a car. It takes time to do everything. So, 2025 is not the year.
“He doesn’t like that. Internally, they know. The challenge is external.
“Part of the challenge is that part of the media is Instagram media. They are not genuine media, nor are they genuine journalists. And there are fewer and fewer genuine journalists.
“Right now it’s anyone who wakes up, writes a blog and is a journalist. And they are the ones who don’t perceive it. They are more enthusiastic than journalists.
“Those are the ones who will build up false expectations and do the damage. That’s all. But internally, they know.
“Alonso knows what he has to do now to show that he is still one step above. As he did when in Ferrari and Ferrari he was not a winning car. As he did in McLaren, when the McLaren was a dog, he had a terrible engine .
“If you continue doing that, they will withhold it. Because the day the car can win, it will be there.
Although Aston Martin fought for podiums and even came close to winning races in 2023, the effects diminished last season with the team falling away from the top 4 with only 98 problems on the board.
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