Max Verstappen\u2019s father\u2019s comments plunge Christian Horner\u2019s Red Bull future into doubt Sky Sports ItalyChristian Horner\u2019s future as Red Bull Team Principal has been thrown into fresh doubt after explosive comments from the father of F1 champion Max Verstappen. Horner was the subject of an investigation in February after an allegation of misconduct was levelled at him by a female member of Red Bull\u2019s staff. Earlier this week, Horner was cleared of the allegations by Red Bull\u2019s board, appearing to pave the way for F1\u2019s focus to return to the race track ahead of the opening race of the 2024 season. But on Thursday that script was torn apart after an anonymous email purporting to show WhatsApp messages sent by Horner to the female staff member was sent to Formula 1 personnel and media. Red Bull\u2019s main driver, Verstappen, retained his focus to win the Bahrain Grand Prix on Saturday but the situation has left his father, Jos, less than impressed. \u201cThere is tension here while he remains in position,\u201d he told the Daily Mail. \u201cThe team is in danger of being torn apart. \u201cIt can\u2019t go on the way it is. It will explode. He is playing the victim when he is the one causing the problems.\u201d Max Verstappen\u2019s stance on Christian Horner future Verstappen himself has withheld from commenting on Horner\u2019s situation and has chosen to praise his impact on the track which has helped the Dutch driver win three successive Formula 1 drivers\u2019 championships. \u201cListen, when I look at how Christian operates within the team, he has been an incredible team boss,\u201d Verstappen said. \u201cSo absolutely, from the performance side of things, you can\u2019t even question that. \u201cI speak to Christian a lot. And also, of course, throughout the weekend here, he\u2019s fully committed to the team. He\u2019s also here for the performance, of course. Probably a little bit distracted. \u201cBut we just focus on the performance side of things and that is how we all work together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Max Verstappen\u2019s father\u2019s comments plunge Christian Horner\u2019s Red Bull future into doubt Sky Sports ItalyChristian Horner\u2019s future as Red Bull Team Principal has been thrown into fresh doubt after explosive comments from the father of F1 champion Max Verstappen. Horner was the subject of an investigation in February after an allegation of misconduct was levelled […]<\/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-67125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67125","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=67125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}