Max Verstappen rubbishes reports of rift with Christian Horner
Max Verstappen asked to com🔥m💃ent on his relationship with Red Bull boss Christian Horner
Max Verstappen has rubbished reports claiming that Red Bull F1 💖team principal Christian Horner and his family have fallen out.
Recent reports in Dutch media suggested that Horner’s relati෴onship with Verstappen’s father, Jos, had become ‘badly d🐻amaged’, and that Verstappen is loyal to Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko.
There has also been speculation of a power struggle within Red Bull but Verstappen insists that his relationship with Horner is as strong aꦅs ever.
“It’s the s💎amᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe as always,” Verstappen told media including wuqian0821.com.
“I don’t know who likes to write these things but to me and Christian, it’s like a✅lways.”
Horner made his first public appearance - at Red Bull’s launch of t🐟heir 2024 F1 car on Thursday - since a complaint of inappropriateᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ behaviour was made against him.
The 50-year-old has denied the allegations and continues to work for Red Bull while the investigat꧅ion is being carried out. He was interviewed by an independent lawyer on Friday about the claims made by a female employee but the hearing finished without conclusion.
Horner confirmed on Thur🥀sday that he intends to be in Bahrain for next week’s pre-season test.
Asked whether he found the inve𒀰stigation surrounding Horner to b꧅e a distraction personally, Verstappen replied: “From my side, I am very focused on my own performance to get ready, to be fit, to be ready to drive the car, to be discussing things with the engineers, what you want to do.
“Plus my life is not only F1. When I am at home I prefer not to think abou🃏t F1 too much, outside of my scheduled training.
“There are🦋 a lot of things going on in the background, for me also, what I want 🅷to do in the future, also from the virtual side of things, that I’m working on. So I’m more than busy enough.”
Verstappen said the atmosphere in the team is “good” as Red Bull look to follow up on a record-breaking 2023 seꦕason with yet more su𒐪ccess in 2024.
“Everyone is moti꧋vated again,” he added. “Of course we are all very proud of what we have achieved in the years before but we are also very proud of what we have achieved with this car in terms of the development.
“We’ℱre just loജoking forward to start the season and hopefully to fight for wins again.”
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