George Russell and Max Verstappen are certainly not the best of friends, and it doesn't look like things will improve in 2025. In fact...
The year has barely begun, and Russell has already dropped a serious bombshell on his rival's side of the pitch, which will certainly not go unpunished.
According to the Briton, Verstappen's outbursts are driving a quarter of Red Bull Racing's engineering to Mercedes, and the rest to other teams...
"I don't dispute his abilities, his driving style, but the moment he no longer has the fastest car, or if, for example, he collides with Lewis Hamilton, then everyone will immediately be at fault, but not him. He gets all worked up and makes his entire team scream and loses the ground from under him... That's when it happens, like after the Hungarian Grand Prix, when almost the next day the CVs of 25 percent of their engineering team landed at Mercedes, but many people also applied to McLaren and Aston Martin. They can't work with a guy like that!
Christian Horner has categorically rejected Russell's claim, pointing out that Red Bull has long-term contracts with its key engineers, making the idea a shambles. He also warned George Russell that he would be better off looking after himself.
Max Verstappen is getting ready…
