Max Verstappen has insisted his relationship with team principal Christian Horner is unchanged following speculation of a rift between the pair.
Horner is facing an investigation within the wider Red Bull operation regarding allegations relating to his conduct.
Verstappen, who has won the world championship for the last three years at Red Bull and is contracted to remain with them until 2028, rejected any suggestion the development had affected his relationship with Horner.
“It’s the same as always,” he told media including RaceFans at the team’s launch event yesterday. “I can tell you that.
“I don’t know who likes to write these kind of things, but between me and Christian it’s like always.”
It remains unclear how long the investigation into Horner, and the uncertainty surrounding his future, will last. Verstappen’s team mate Sergio Perez said the team is sticking together in the meantime.
“Obviously there are some things out there but the most important thing is we stay together as a team, we work well on the main goal, remembering that we are here for racing and that we love it and we just go racing together.”
“We know that Christian is a key player in our organisation,” he added.
“We just want to go racing. We are a race team and we want the whole team to stay together because we’ve been so successful. It would be ideal just to keep the whole team together and just focus on racing.”
Horner admitted the investigation has been a distraction for the team but insisted it was “business as normal” in their preparations for the new season.
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