Jos Verstappen slams Brundle over comments about Max, calling him an 'idiot'

Jos Verstappen is angry about a remark Brundle made during a broadcast where Brundle was responding to the news that Verstappen’s manager had a meeting with McLaren.“What if he wants to leave Red Bull?” Brundle asked.

The former F1 driver then said: “My goodness, they wanted to torpedo the management of Red Bull, didn't they? Team Verstappen did that very well indeed. To start with, Christian Horner, and it just carried on from there with Adrian Newey, Dr Helmut Marko and Jonathan Wheatley.

"Now we know Paul Monaghan is leaving. I think they did a bit too good a job of wanting to move some people out of the way there at Red Bull, did Team Verstappen,” concluded the Brit.

Verstappen Snr—present in Silverstone this weekend to support his son—also saw Brundle’s statements. He responded online saying: “Another idiot who thinks he knows what it’s like.”

Lately, it has become commonplace for Verstappen senior to lash out at analysts who, in his view, do not speak the truth. For instance, the Dutch ex-driver was recently angry with Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya.

In Verstappen’s eyes, it is incomprehensible that international media give these ex-drivers a platform. In Montoya’s case, Verstappen did not understand that the Colombian was allowed to voice criticism on the official Formula 1 channel.