- Red Bull team principal sends pointed message to driver
- ‘Everybody has a role to play, from the bottom to the top’
The Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, issued a pointed warning to his world champion driver, Max Verstappen, that no individual is bigger than the team after a weekend at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix when Verstappen had suggested he might leave Red Bull.
After another tumultuous race week had engulfed Red Bull Racing, despite once more being enormously successful on track with Verstappen taking a dominant one-two finish alongside his teammate Sergio Pérez, Horner was at pains to emphasise that he viewed his driver as only one part of the success they are enjoying, potentially calling the Dutchman’s bluff after he had said he would consider his position were Red Bull’s director of motorsport, Helmut Marko, to leave the team.