"Cut out the stupid cr*p": Jos Verstappen rages at Red Bull boss Christian Horner's comments post-Singapore GP

Former F1 driver and Max Verstappen's father Jos Verstappen did not mince his words while criticizing Red Bull team principal Christian Horner for his post-race comments in Singapore. The Brit was appreciative of the Austrian team's recovery weekend, where they looked out of sorts on Friday but looked competitive during qualifying and the race.

Horner credited the turnaround in performance to simulator driver Sebastien Buemi, who pulled off an all-nighter after the Friday practice session to help the Milton-Keynes outfit at the track.

Speaking to the media post-race, the Red Bull team boss joked:

“He was consuming plenty of Red Bulls to keep him going! He played an important part, as the whole team, in working hard and long days and long nights. And with the benefit of there being no factory shutdown over the next three-week period, it’s going to be a busy period of activity.”

However, Horner's words of encouragement could not convince Jos Verstappen who called out the team boss for RB20's lack of performance over the last couple of months. The former Benetton driver said, via PlanetF1:

“Cut out the stupid c***."

Jos had previously voiced his concerns over the performance in Zandvoort as he advised the team "not to sugarcoat it anymore, the situation is serious. Max won’t be happy with having a car like this. Now it’s up to Horner to get the team back on track.”

Red Bull team principal addresses rectifying the issues with RB20

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner believed that the Italian Grand Prix in Monza exposed a lot of issues with the RB20 and was the low point for the team.

Speaking with Motorsport.com, the 50-year-old also cited that Lando Norris and McLaren were the benchmarks in F1 as of now, saying, via GrandPrix247:

“We already could see the issues, but I think what Monza really exposed was perhaps some of the root cause, or helped to identify the root cause of the issue. So I’m taking Monza as the low point, and we’re starting to build out of that. We’ve got a vein of development, and we’ve understood some of the issues with the car."

"I think we’re starting to address them. We were better in Baku, we were better here [Singapore]. So, there’ll be a lot of late nights in Milton Keynes. The McLaren is the benchmark car at the moment, and we have a bit to catch up, but we’ve got the people and the capability to do that."

Red Bull has lost the constructor's championship lead to McLaren in the past two races as the Woking-based outfit now leads the reigning world champions by 41 points with six races and three sprints remaining in the 2024 season.