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Verstappen lifts lid on Red Bull factory mood after Horner’s dismissal

22:06, 24 Jul

byHidde Korte

Max Verstappen was in the centre of attention during the press day of the Belgian GP. The Dutchman received many questions about his future, but also about the dismissal of Christian Horner. Talking to GPblog and others, Verstappen commented on the current situation.

The dismissal of Horner came as a shock to many team members. Verstappen was asked how the mood on the team is right now compared to two weeks ago.

"Of course, you know, when there's a change like that on the first day, maybe people are like, ‘okay, what's happening?’ But luckily, also, I think, well, basically the day after the announcement, I was at the factory doing my simulator stuff."

Verstappen wants to focus on Red Bull's progress

Verstappen had previously indicated that he wanted to focus on Red Bull's sporting performance. Something he emphasised again when talking about how the team reacted to when Horner's departure was announced.

"And you still have to work, we have to work on performance setting up the car here, making sure that everything is correlated in the best way possible. And you just focus on that because at the end of the day that's my job, that's the engineers job as well, it's about trying to find as much performance as possible that's what we are in for it," the defending world champion concluded.