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Christian Horner and Jos Verstappen were reportedly progressive successful a heated enactment days earlier the Red Bull brag was axed.
On Wednesday, daze quality emerged that Horner has been sacked by Red Bull aft 20 years with the team.
Horner led the squad to six constructors' championships and 8 drivers' satellite titles.
The Milton Keynes-based squad acted rapidly arsenic they appointed Laurent Mekies arsenic the caller CEO.
Frenchman Mekies has been promoted from his relation arsenic squad main astatine Red Bull sister squad Visa Cash App Racing Bulls.
Days earlier the sacking became public, it was claimed that Horner and Verstappen, who is the begetter of prima operator Max, were progressive successful a heated discussion.
As reported by GP Blog, things got heated betwixt the brace and now, Ralf Schumacher has besides picked up connected it.
Christian Horner has been axed by Red Bull. Image: Getty
He said successful the Boxengasse-podcast: "There was different statement oregon a heated exchange, astatine slightest visually and verbally betwixt Jos Verstappen, Christian Horner, and the property officer. You could spot that Jos was thing but blessed with the situation.
"But I recognize it too. For me, Christian Horner is besides a spot of a hard person. I person to accidental that. He conscionable failed to support the squad unneurotic well, which is not ever easy, of course. But I besides deliberation his behaviour now, I tin lone notation to myself, but helium can't truly woody with criticism."
Christian Horner and Jos Verstappen during the 2024 Brazilian Grand Prix. Image: Getty
Schumacher besides added that Horner opted against speaking to him.
He said: "We are, oregon I am, now, connected a alleged achromatic list, truthful helium nary longer talks to america oregon with maine and such. It's really a joke, due to the fact that a antheral who has won truthful overmuch should really beryllium capable to sermon it successful beforehand of the camera.
"But I deliberation our viewers are funny successful that. What precisely is happening? Why is it so? But helium is intelligibly not that large successful the existent consciousness of the word, unfortunately. You present spot that wrong the team, too. They had a barbecue the time before, but of people determination was besides the occurrence successful qualifying, those kinds of things. But that has present faded away."
According to a study by ESPN, the ambiance wrong the Red Bull squad was becoming tense.
It has been suggested that a bid of meetings took spot implicit the past 2 weekends and that astatine slightest 1 of those progressive Max Verstappen and manager Oliver Mintzlaff, with the second said to person been pushing for a alteration of enactment for immoderate time.
Formula 1 volition instrumentality astatine the extremity of July with the Belgian Grand Prix, taking spot astir the Circuit of Spa-Francorchamps.
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