The Official Formula One and General Motorsport for the 2022 season! Has the 2nd era of Red Bull begun?

[Cheeky Devlin]

Plus all the crap Jos Verstappen comes out with (Kelly Piquet is Max's partner).

I guess that explains why Red Bull have said they're not making a statement.

[Rawrgna]

yeah redbull trying to distance themselves from two racist remark scandals

[Cuttooth]

Verstappen stans online suddenly tying themselves in the same knots over cultural differences and uses of certain words as Liverpool fans did back in the day.

[Tomous]

Verstappen stans online suddenly tying themselves in the same knots over cultural differences and uses of certain words as Liverpool fans did back in the day.

Time to print some t-shirts

[Robbo-92]

Well they’ve only got the one scandal on the go now, Juri Vips has been let go.

[Vermilion]

I'm beginning to think my purchase of a Max cap was pretty bad timing.

[Robbo-92]

They’ll have a huge sale on them asap to clear them out Red Bull will soon be team Perez

[Vermilion]

Mind you, i buy Red Bull caps as my secondaries (my main cap is my Kimoa) as theirs are the best designs.

The Mercedes caps are so dull, i had hoped there'd be a decent looking George Russell one but alas, there were none to be found.

[Neo Cortex]

Dull? I love my Miami gp one

[Vermilion]

Dull? I love my Miami gp one

I was referring to the standard designs rather than the special editions.

[Memento Mori]

yeah redbull trying to distance themselves from two racist remark scandals

Give Marko a microphone and they can rack up some more.

[Cheeky Devlin]

yeah redbull trying to distance themselves from two racist remark scandals

Give Marko a microphone and they can rack up some more.

That guy always looks like he'd be far more comfortable in an SS uniform, marching into Poland.

[floydfreak]

[Memento Mori]

Oh what a shame.

twitter.com/andrewbensonf1/status/1542126172582068224

[Robbo-92]

Really surprised that Vips is still being employed by his team in F2, even though Red Bull have dropped him.

[Tomous]

What's Bernie doing say he'd take a bullet for Putin?! strawberry floating hell

[rinks]

I’m not in any way surprised though. Ecclestone is just like Putin’s other oligarch cronies.

[captain red dog]

Bernie is a disgusting human being, everything he did in F1 was corrupt to the core. It comes as no surprise to me when Bernie was proudly declaring himself a great fan of Nazi architecture a few years ago.

[KK]

For those that missed it, this was what Bernie Ecclestoner said on Good Morning Britain this morning, and Times Radio last month:

Unfortunately he's [Putin] like a lot of business people, certainly like me, that we make mistakes from time to time and when you make the mistake, you have to do the best you can to get out of it.

I would still take a bullet for him. I’d rather it didn’t hurt but I would still take a bullet...he’s a first class person, and what he’s doing is something that he believed was the right thing.

The other person in Ukraine, his profession I understand, used to be a comedian - and I think it seems that he wants to continue that profession.

I think if he'd thought about things, he would definitely have made a big enough effort to speak to Putin, who is a sensible person, and would have listened to him and could have probably done something about it.

I'm quite sure Ukraine, if they'd wanted to get out of it properly, could have done

I'm absolutely sure he now wishes he hadn't started this whole business - but it didn't start as a war.

When it was pointed out that Russia's invasion of Ukraine had claimed the lives of thousands of innocent people, Mr Ecclestone simply replied: "It wasn't intentional".

In regards to dropping the Russian Grand Prix:

"I'm not in the position now to have done anything about that,

"I'm not sure I would have stopped that, and I certainly now wouldn't, and I think it's wrong, to stop Russian athletes, including obviously drivers, in taking part in their sport.

"They didn't get involved in this in the first place. They shouldn't be punished."

The former Formula 1 boss has previously defended the Russian president, telling Times Radio last month that he found Mr Putin “very straightforward and honourable.”

“He’s a good guy,” he said. “He’s never done anything that isn’t doing good things for people. I would like him running Europe. We haven’t got anybody, so it couldn’t be any worse.”

He added: “I am not a supporter of democracry. You need a dictator. As a dictator, you say, ‘This is what I’m going to do’. In a democracy, it gets watered down.”

[rinks]

Yeah, go and live in Russia then.