Jos Verstappen be𝔉lieves Christian Horner will stay at Red Bull for the remainder of the F1 2024 season.

The father of Max Versꦗtappen has offered his backing to the female employee who has been suspended by Red Bull after her complaints against Horner were dismissed.

Jos is not present at this weekend’s F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix🎃 because he is racing himself in a rallying event in Belgium.

"I think it's too late for Christian to say 'leave me alone' but he h🐷as the support of the Thai owner so I think he will stay for the rest of the season," he told the .

"I said it would bad if he stayed, it really isn't good for𝄹 the team, this whol💛e situation."

𝄹Jos has shared the truth about the argument he reportedly had with Horner inꦚ Bahrain last week.

"That was earlier, on Fri♓d🔯ay, before the race," he said.

"He wa✃s saying to me 'Do you trust me༒? I will do everything for your son' and we were talking with our hands, we didn't have a fight.

"But on Friday we did have an argument in the office, and I walked out but, in the trailer, he came up to me and said 'Congratulations, good r🎶ace'."

Jos said about the Red Bull employee who has now been suspended: "I ඣsympathise with the woman, with all that she went through, but we will see🔴 what happens.

"Red Bull seem to know what they are doing with her, we will𝄹 see. But I think it 💯is for her to come out and see what happens.

"I'm not fully up💞 to speed with what is happenꦬing with her."

Jos added: "But all these things🍸 that are going on are having an influence on Max.

"He was third in the first practice, and all we hear about is Horner a🀅nd what happened ℱwith his situation.

"In the press conference Horner gave the other day it was all about him and his💯 problems when we should be talking about Max, ♒the car, his performance and the race.

'I've al♍ready said I think 🌼it is causing problems if he stays.'

Red Bull team principal Horner demanded in Saudi Arabia that a line was drawn under the entire saga to en🎉d the scrutiny.

Jos reacted to those comments:🦩 “I think it's a bit too late for that now. If that's what he wants,ꦰ fine, but I don't think it will be possible. I don't want to talk too much more as it will create problems.

"But the most important thing for me is t🐻hat Max is happy, that's what counts for me, I just want him to be happy."

However, even the happiness of star driver Max ha𒐪s come under question in Saudi Arabia, a♕t the second F1 round of the 2024 season.

Red Bull are now investigating Helm🐼ut Marko, reportedly over whether he was leaking information to ♔the media.

Max hinted his own future 🉐could be linked to Marko’s.

He said: "My loyalty to him is very big, and also I have always expressed this to everyone within the team, everyone high up, that he is an important part in my deci🌼sion making for all the time in the future as well within the team.”

Comments last week from Jos, about Horner, escalated the sit🅰uation at Red Bull to new heights.

He said in Bahrain: “The team is in danger of being torn apart. It can't go on the way it❀ is. It will explode.”

He also accused Horner of “playing the viꦚctim” at the F1 season-opener.

But Horner then enjoyed the company of Red Bull’s 51% shꦚareholder Chalerm Yoovidhya in the paddock.