MAX VERSTAPPEN refused to be drawn into a debate over the future of Red Bull boss Christian Horner – swerving questions about their relationship. Verstappen faced several questions from the media ahead of the Bahrain GP centering on the internal investigation and said it would not affect his performance. He was then asked for some more information on the process that Horner is going through and whether he had “full confidence in his team principal”. “But as a team, yeah, we do trust that process and we just have to be patient, because there’s no need to start saying things, start screaming things out loud. Verstappen admitted Horner was crucial to the success of the team and said he would have been missed if he was dismissed from his post. Like I said before, we just trust the process that we are in as a team of course, to see what the outcome will be.

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