Rumours began last week when Brazil’s Globo reported “turmoil” and “tension” at Red Bull, saying that team principal Horner wanted to get rid of cons꧂ultant Marko.

Horner, Marko and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen denied the reports du🍃ring last weekend’s F1 United States Grand Prix.

’s Kravitz reported from on the ground in Texas: “Do you want to know about a story that you might have read about Helmut Marko and a supposed row 🃏with Christian Horner💖?

“Now, we never knew. We didn’t know. I haven’t heard this in the waters, in the paddock jungle drums, in the paddock rumour m💝ill.

“We’ve seen no evidence of🏅 any row between Horner and Marko.

“They are tight buddies! Theꦿy still have lunch ever🐼y day together.

“When Marko was interviewed by an Austrian newspaper he was asked about a rumoured rift with Horner, which I didn’t know was a thi🍌ng!

“He said: ‘I have a contract with Red Bull until the end of next year. When, and how, I stop? I decide. Not, for example, 🔯Mr. Horner’.

“How is he exposing a massive rift, which looks like♛ it isn’t a rift, with Horner? It’s all rather baffling.

“I don’t get it. Because th🅘ey look like bezzie mates!

“Max Vꦅerstappen was asked about this and said t💟hat he’s very close to both: ‘You don’t break up a winning team’.

“So, why was he asked? And♛ why did he give a slightly tetchy answer? I just don’t get it…

“If it turns that our Marko leaves his post at the end o🐟f this year, rather than at the end of next year when his contract runs out, then you’ll know that what’s happening at the moment is ‘something’.

“And, if he doesn’t, then it wasn’t! That’s prob💙ably the easiest 𝔉way to explain!

“The crucial thing is that Verstappen, who is very close with Marko, was saying ‘I don’t want him to leave, he was instrumental in the making of me, he’s a good lad to h🌟ave aro🙈und!’

“There is the back-story.”

Horner denied the rumours, telling : "Without Helmut, I wouldn't be𝓡 in the position that I am today.

“Like with the young drivers that he h💝as given an opportunity, he also gave me that opportunity.”

Verstappen insisted: “I saw🌠 that from the outside people are trying to basically t♑alk some BS because I think the mood in the team is very good.”

Marko told : "We'v♈e known each other for 27 years. 

“We built this up together🐬. The division of labour looks lik🐭e this: Christian does the operational stuff, I'm more into the strategy. 

“That's good. It's worked so far and we'll see that it💟 works in the future too."