The father of world champion Max goes against the head of the team after the dismissal of the complaint: “He plays the victim and is the culprit. There is tension as long as he remains in office.”
The former Dutch pilot Jos Verstappen, father of the current three-time Formula 1 world champion, Max Verstappen, He considered that Red Bull “is going to explode” if it keeps the Briton in sports management Chris Horner, accused of inappropriate behavior with an employee but acquitted by the team after completing an internal investigation.
“There is tension while he remains in office. The team risks tearing itself apart. It cannot continue like this. It is going to explode. Horner plays the victim when he is the one at the root of the problems,” said the father of Verstappen to the British newspaper Daily Mail, after his son’s victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix, first date of the 2024 season.
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Director of Red Bull reaffirmed his innocence over the weekend in the Middle East and said “he has never been so strong” after the Austrian company announced that its internal investigation by an external lawyer had not found sufficient evidence to prove the facts that were alleged to it. recriminated.
horner, Married to former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, who accompanied him to Bahrain, he always denied the facts and was convinced after the GP that his position was not at risk. “A complete and lengthy internal process was carried out and the alleged accusation has been rejected. End of story,” he said.
But the case was revived again when in recent days with the sending of an anonymous email, which contained in particular WhatsApp messages supposedly written by Horner, to journalists specialized in Formula 1 already responsible for other teams.
Jos Verstappen distanced himself from the origin of that information leaked to the media, saying: “That doesn’t make sense, why would I do something like that when Max is doing so well here?”
In any case, since the scandal does not seem to find an end in the near future, rumors of a possible move by Max Verstappen to Mercedes began to circulate with greater force in the last few hours, notes the specialized Motorsport site.
horner, 50 years old, he has directed Red Bull since it entered the F1 World Championship in 2005 and won the seven titles that appear in the team’s record, four in a row with the German Sebastian Vettel (2010-2013) and the three most recent with Verstappen (2021-2023).
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