George Russell and Max Verstappen are certainly not the best of friends and it doesn't look like things will get any better in 2025. Quite the opposite...
The year hasn't even started yet and Russell has already dropped a serious bombshell on his rival's turf that will surely not go unanswered.
According to Briton Verstappen, his outbursts are driving a quarter of Red Bull Racing engineers to Mercedes and the rest to other teams...
"I don't question his abilities, his driving style, but the moment he no longer has the fastest car, or when he collides with Lewis Hamilton, for example, everyone will immediately be at fault, but not him. He shouts at his entire team and loses ground... Then what happens is what happened after the Hungarian Grand Prix, when almost the next day 25 percent of their engineering team's CVs landed at Mercedes, but also a lot of people applied to McLaren and Aston Martin. They are incapable of working with such a guy!
Christian Horner has categorically rejected Russell's claim, pointing out that Red Bull has key engineers on long-term contracts, making the notion simply false. He also warned George Russell that he would be best served by looking after himself.
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