Max Verstappen ‘fully focused on car’ amid latest Christian Horner allegations

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, left, and Red Bull driver Max Verstappen at pre-season testing in Bahrain (Darko Bandic/AP)

Red Bull’s superstar driver Max Verstappen stopped short of providing his full support for embattled team principal Christian Horner.

Verstappen temporarily took the spotlight off Horner – whose Formula One future is again in the spotlight after hundreds of WhatsApp messages appearing to be written by him to a female colleague were leaked – when the Dutchman secured pole position for Saturday’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.