Christian Horner has hit back strongly at Toto Wolff after the Mercedes boss hinted that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen couldꦗ be tempted into leaving F1’s dominant team.

Verstappen stormed to his fourth F1 victory of the season, finishing over 13 seconds clear of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris.

While Verstappen’s iℱmmediate F1 future is secure, given his contract with Red Bull lasts until 2028, rumours over a potential switch to Mercedes aren’t going⛄ away.

Aftꦅer the race in China, Wolff suggested that Red Bull’s♍ form in 2024 alone wouldn’t be enough to keep the Dutchman.

Horner was asked about Wolff’🍸s recent remarks - and th🐠e Red Bull boss was clearly irked by them.

"I'm going to think carefully about what I say here," he said."Have you spoken to Max about this? Because if y🐈ou speak to Max, and it’s not about pieces of paper at the end of the day, we know that he has a contract to the end of 2028, it’s about how he feels in the team and the relationship he has in the tea🐲m and the way he’s performing.

"I don’t think Toto’s problems are his drivers; I ꦗthink he’s probably got other elements that he needs to be foꩲcusing on rather than focusing on drivers that are unavailable.

“I don’t know how many more times he needs to say it. He said it numerous times. I’🌟m not going to get drawn into it – I think sometimes it’s just designed to create noise.💮”

Red Bull’s latest win mea🌺ns they have moved ahead of Mercedes for most victories (117 to 116) in the ๊modern era.

Horner then fired two shots at Mercedes - the first for being behind two of their customer teams in performance terms (McLaren and Aston Martin) - and the second, by mentioning 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell and the fact he might w🌺ant to leave when his contract expir🐬es in 2026.

“We moved today ahead of the number of races that Mercedes have won in the modern era, so the team is in form, why on earth would 💎you want to leave this tea🌳m?," Horner added.

“Mercedes are the third team behind their customers at the moment, s♚o I would think his time would be better spent perhaps focusing on the team rather than the driver ma💝rket.

"Have any of you heard George Russell is out of contract at the end of ’25? You kn🐼ow, maybe he might not be so keen to stay in ’26, you know, the market moves around.”

Horner remains adamant tha♊t Verstappen will be in a Red Bull in 2025.

"I can assure you that there is no ambiguity as to where Max Verstappen will be next🥂 year,” he concluded.