Red Bull lack respect, says McLaren boss Brown

McLaren Racing main executive serviceman Zak Brown has accused Red Bull of "lacking respect" for Formula 1 connected a wide scope of issues.

Brown’s comments were successful nan discourse of nan collision betwixt Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and McLaren’s Lando Norris successful past weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix.

But they besides covered nan team’s breaking of nan costs headdress successful 2021 and allegations astir nan behaviour of squad main Christian Horner.

Brown said: "We request to person respect for regulations and we've seen location beryllium deficiency of respect, whether it's financial regulations aliases you cognize sporting, on-track issues pinch fathers and things of that nature.

"And I conscionable don't deliberation that's really we request to spell racing, and we request to guideline our drivers connected what's correct aliases wrong."

The remark astir "fathers" is simply a reference to nan ongoing conflict betwixt Horner and Verstappen’s begetter Jos, which broke retired into nan unfastened pinch a statement complete a objection tally successful Austria.

Horner and Jos Verstappen are astatine loggerheads because of allegations of intersexual harassment and coercive, controlling behaviour made against Horner by a female employee. Horner denies nan claims.

Red Bull refused to remark connected Brown’s remarks.

The American said Red Bull should person knowledgeable Verstappen astir nan rules of behaviour connected nan title way and that their nonaccomplishment to do truthful had encouraged his driving successful that way.

Brown said: "Having part-time stewards, it's a very difficult job, it's rather complex, and truthful to benignant of do it connected a part-time ground for nan level Formula 1 is difficult, because Max and Lando were conscionable duking it retired arsenic you'd expect them to do.

"And until personification tells Max: ‘Hey, that's against nan regulations’, he's not going to cognize immoderate different.

"And truthful I deliberation location were missed opportunities for nan stewards to make note.

"Also disappointed that astatine specified a awesome squad for illustration Red Bull that nan activity almost encourages it because you perceive connected nan power and what was said. We each person a work connected pit wall show our drivers nan do's and don'ts and what's going connected successful nan race."

Mercedes F1 squad leader Toto Wolff said: “The drivers among themselves will cognize best. Lando and Max, they get connected pinch each different very well. They're not going to trash each different successful nan media, but talk it through, and each nan bully guys will person a judgement connected that, and we'll spot what it means. I deliberation that's number one.

"And number 2 is there's a group of regulations. And those regulations springiness nan boundaries to nan drivers, what's on, what's not.

"I thin to work together pinch Zak, it's ever amusing to spot conscionable one-dimensional comments of squad principals wherever you think, let's beryllium a small spot nonsubjective astatine least."


Norris said this week that he and Verstappen had discussed nan incident which occurred while they were battling for nan lead successful Austria past play and nan Dutchman said they “agreed pinch 99% of everything”.