Max Verstappen has brandished the rumours surrounding the Red Bull camp as ‘bulls***’ after reports emerged claiming a rift between team principal Christian Horner and advisor Helmut Marko.

Reports surfaced earlier in the week that Horner was looking to phase Marko out of the limelight at Red Bull with relations strained after the 80-year-old’s derogatory comments about Sergio Perez earlier in the season.

Marko, for his part, came out to deny the rumours, telling Austrian news outlet OE24: “There is no summit, I have a contract until the end of next year. When and how I stop, when it is over, I decide, and not, for example, Mr Horner.”

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