Max Verstappen has insisted Christian Horner's exit will play no part in his decision over whether to remain with Red

Laurent Mekies takes charge of Red Bull as its new team principal for a first F1 weekend since Christian Horner’s sacking. Max Verstappen has already held “multiple” talks with the Frenchman during “intense weeks”,

Max Verstappen will be without long-serving race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase at the Belgian Grand Prix, with the Red Bull man set to miss this weekend's race due to personal reasons. Simon Rennie will fill in on the pit wall as the voice in the reigning world champion's ears.