Max Verstappen is making noise again – but this time, it’s not from the front of the grid. After another frustrating outing in Japan, whispers of a shock Formula 1 exit have erupted into full-blown debate, and now Martin Brundle has waded in with a characteristically sharp take. The Sky F1 pundit – a man who has seen F1 legends come and go for decades – isn't buying into the Dutchman’s gloomy narrative. While Verstappen argues that the sport’s new regulations focus too much on energy management and not enough on raw driver skill, Brundle suggests the broken record is starting to skip. “Max is very unfiltered, always has been and he’s talked a lot for a long time about not being in this for the long haul, ‘I’m not going to be hanging around here in my forties’, or whatever,” Brundle remarked on The F1 Show. “Max would say it’s getting a bit boring now. I think it’s getting a bit boring with what he’s saying. Either go or stop talking about it, because it is what it is. You’ve got to make the most of it.” Despite the tough love, Brundle isn't blind to what the sport would lose if the Dutchman actually walked. “I would hugely miss his talent, his generational speed and car control is something that very few people in the history of motorsport have had. It’s quite extraordinary,” he admitted. However, the former Grand Prix driver was also quick to point out the cold reality of the business. “Nobody’s indispensable in this business, I’ve seen a number of amazing people come through this sport and are no longer with us, or have worked on to something else, and the sport carries on. Murray Walker would be one of them,” Brundle said. The speculation regarding