Max Verstappen calls for \u201cpeace\u201d as Red Bull civil war rages on Associated PressMax Verstappen has called for \u201cpeace\u201d within the Red Bull team as the reigning F1 champions find themselves embroiled in controversy at the beginning of the season. On the track, things could not be going better for the team. Successive 1-2 finishes in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia sees them pick up where they left off last season at the pinnacle of the sport. Yet away from the action, the six-time constructors\u2019 champions have endured a bumpy start to the year. Allegations of inappropriate behaviour surfaced last month against the Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner. Those complaints were later dismissed following an internal investigation, but the following day an anonymous email was sent to journalists claiming to include screenshots of communications from WhatsApp exchanges purportedly between Horner and the accuser. It has since been reported that senior Red Bull advisor, Helmut Marko, is allegedly facing suspension pending the outcome of a separate internal investigation \u2013 rumoured to be related to the leaking of information surrounding the Horner allegations. Max Verstappen wants peace at Red Bull Jos Verstappen, Max\u2019s father, also created a stir after he publicly spoke out against Horner. \u201cThere is tension here while he remains in position,\u201d he told the Daily Mail. \u201cThe team is in danger of being torn apart.\u201d Yet the 26-year-old three-time world champion has now called for all parties to unite and focus on the season ahead. \u201cI always said that what is most important is that we work together as a team and that everyone keeps the peace,\u201d Verstappen said after the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what we, I think, all agree on within the team. So hopefully from now on, that is also fully the case. \u201cEveryone is trying to focus in the same direction. And I think the positive out of all this is that it didn\u2019t hurt our performances. So it\u2019s a very strong team. \u201cI think also mentally, what you can see from not only driver\u2019s side, but also mechanics, engineers, everyone is there to do their job. And I think everyone, even when there is stuff going on or whatever, they\u2019re just very focused on their job as they should be.\u201d Mercedes team principal, Toto Wolff, could be looking to take advantage of the unrest at Red Bull, after he made no secret of his admiration for Verstappen. Wolff is looking to fill the seat of seven-time world champion, Lewis Hamilton, who is making the sensational move to Ferrari in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Max Verstappen calls for \u201cpeace\u201d as Red Bull civil war rages on Associated PressMax Verstappen has called for \u201cpeace\u201d within the Red Bull team as the reigning F1 champions find themselves embroiled in controversy at the beginning of the season. On the track, things could not be going better for the team. Successive 1-2 finishes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}