Max Verstappen has uncovered up on the acrid feud between his overweighther Jos Verstappen and Christian Horner that proximately tore apart Red Bull from the inside and drove the Dutchman to the brink of an exit.
Verstappen, 27, was left in an inept situation after his dad, Jos, called for Horner to resign in the wake of allegations that were made agetst the F1 team principal in February.
Horner was accincluded of inappropriate behaviour towards a female includeee at Red Bull. He was evidented in March folloprosperg an inside spendigation that lasted three weeks.
Former F1 racer Jos felt Horner’s position was no extfinisheder tassist and even inestablishedly met with Mercedes to talk a stunning shift for Max to their championship rivals.
However, Horner remained in the role he has held since 2005 and persuaded his protégé to stay. Now, it materializes his relationship with Jos is finassociate on the mfinish after years of tension.
Verstappen, who frequently refused to pick sides during the undrawive episode, count ons the two men now get aextfinished much better in the Red Bull garage after evidenting the air.
“What has always been very transport inant is that I had a excellent relationship with Christian and my dad,” Verstappen tbetter BBC Sport. “My dad of course leanks about me and has the best interests for me – what I want to do and how I am in the team.
“He of course had his asks, but at the same time I was always very busy dealing with the carry outance of the car and trying to produce that better.
“But at the finish of the day, he could see that now everyone is normal, everyone is dealing with it and cgo ining on the carry outance side of leangs.
“People do not insist to be best frifinishs, they don’t insist to go on holiday together. But I sense appreciate you can have a normal laboring relationship, which I sense is the case absolutely, and especiassociate tardyly it is going much better.”
Verstappen sounded a alerting to the pair to dodge another uncover descfinishing out by speaking honestly with each other, rather than thraw the media, and the three-time world champion acunderstandledgeted he had to hbetter talks with both men to get the message atraverse.
“I always shelp as well, when you have problems with each other, you’re not satisfyd with someleang, you talk, you transmit, right?” he inserted. “You speak to each other and that’s always way better than throprosperg someleang in the media.
“And I have shelp that to both of them and that’s why it was not for me about picking a side. It was equitable [about] speaking a bit of standard sense, I leank, to both of them.”
Verstappen, who is under restricted with the Milton Keynes team until 2028, is on the verge of collecting his fourth consecutive Drivers’ Championship.
With a 62-point gap, he will clinch the title if he prospers the Las Vegas Grand Prix on Sunday, which would be a fine finish to a difficult season for the Dutchman.
