World champion insists he just wants car to be quicker
Reveals sacked principal still ‘like a second family to me’
Max Verstappen has insisted that the dismissal of Christian Horner as team principal would not be a factor in deciding whether he remains at Red Bull.
The world champion also revealed that the shock move after the British Grand Prix was led by the team’s parent company Red Bull GmbH, which had been embroiled in a power struggle with Horner for a year and a half.
The Dutchman was addressing the subject publicly for the first time since Horner was dismissed two weeks ago. Horner had been in charge of Red Bull since 2005 but had come increasingly under pressure after the death of Red Bull’s co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz in 2022. Horner had been embroiled in a scandal involving accusations of inappropriate behaviour made against him by an employee, though he was cleared by an investigation.
