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Piquet Jr backtracks on Mercedes-Verstappen claim

Jul.22   Max Verstappen's future remains under intense scrutiny ahead of this weekend's Belgian GP, as performance concerns and political turmoil swirl around the team following Christian Horner's shock mid-season sacking. Nelson Piquet Jr – former F1 driver, son of triple world champion Nelson Piquet, and brother of Verstappen's girlfriend Kelly – had stirred headlines by implying Verstappen had already signed with Mercedes. But he is now backing down. 'That's just a place where people go on holiday,' Piquet Jr said on the Pelas Pistas podcast, referring to reports that Verstappen and Mercedes boss Toto Wolff moored their yachts side-by-side in Sardinia last week. 'Max just...
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