George Russell and Max Verstappen are certainly not the best of friends, and it doesn't look like things will improve in 2025. Quite the opposite…
The year has barely begun and Russell has already thrown a serious bombshell onto his rival's pitch, which will certainly not go unanswered.
The Briton believes that with his outbursts, Verstappen is driving a quarter of Red Bull Racing's engineers to Mercedes, while the rest go to other teams...
"I don't deny his abilities or his driving style, but the moment he no longer has the fastest car, or if he collides with Lewis Hamilton, for example, everyone will immediately blame him. He yells at his entire team and loses his footing... Then what happened after the Hungarian Grand Prix happened, when almost the next day, the CVs of 25 percent of their engineering team landed at Mercedes, but many also applied to McLaren and Aston Martin. They are incapable of working with a guy like that!
Christian Horner categorically refuted Russell's claim, pointing out that Red Bull has long-term contracts with its key engineers, making the very idea untenable. He also warned George Russell that it would be best if he looked after himself.
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