Could Max Verstappen Leave Red Bull?

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🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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As expected, Max Verstappen and his Red Bull team are off to a strong start in the 2024 Formula 1 season. But despite Verstappen and his teammate Sergio Perez finishing first and second in two of the season’s first three races, the focus has been on things happening off the track. Team principle Christian Horner has had a complaint of sexual harassment, coercion, and abusive behavior lodged against him by a female employee of the team, leading to questions about whether Verstappen’s future is with Red Bull. So today, ESPN F1 Editor & co-host of the Unlapped podcast, Laurence Edmondson explains how this allegation opened the door to a power struggle at the top of Red Bull, that could ultimately lead to Verstappen switching lanes in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Dutch driver continues his domination of Formula One.
0:11.0	New Year, but no new winner.
0:13.4	Max Vistapan still the driver to beat.
0:16.0	Max Vastapen wins the season opener.
0:19.0	He takes the Bahrain Grand Prix,
0:21.8	and Max Vastapen is lighting up a trail once again.
0:25.0	Red Bull expected, Red Bull delivered.
0:28.0	That's Max Verstappen, handling business as expected at the season's opening race.
0:35.0	But even though Verstappin and his Red Bull team are off to the start we expected,
0:39.0	the focus hasn't been on their performance during races.
0:45.5	That's because team principal Christian Horner has had a complaint of sexual harassment, coercion, and
0:49.7	abusive behavior lodged against him by a female employee of the
0:53.3	team. So today,
0:55.3	ESP and F1 editor and co-host of the Unlapped podcast, Lawrence Edmondson,
1:00.0	explains how this allegation opened the door to a power struggle within Formula One's best team.
1:06.0	That could ultimately lead to Verstappen switching lanes in the future.
1:11.0	I'm Israel Gutierrez. In for Clinton Yates. It's Wednesday, April 3rd. This is
1:16.8	ESPN daily. Lawrence Edmondson, we're a few weeks into the 2024 Formula One season and Red Bull has been leading the pack so far.
1:31.0	But that hasn't been the biggest story of the F1
1:33.9	Ecospere. What's been going on? The main story in Formula One has not been
1:39.2	about what's been going on on track in Formula One of course the racing. It's been about what's going on off track and this
1:45.8	seeming power struggle combined with some very serious allegations surrounding the Red Bull
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