{"id":509615,"date":"2026-07-04T15:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/509615\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:19:12","slug":"red-bull-exits-a-result-of-torpedo-campaign-by-max-verstappen-camp-martin-brundle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/509615\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull exits a result of &#8216;torpedo&#8217; campaign by Max Verstappen camp &#8211; Martin Brundle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former F1 driver Martin Brundle has stated Max Verstappen&#8217;s F1 camp wanted to \u201ctorpedo\u201d the senior management structure at Red Bull.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Various major figures have departed Red Bull in recent times, including Christian Horner, Adrian Newey and Helmut Marko.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>RacingNews365 understands that <a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/exclusive-key-red-bull-figure-set-to-leave-f1-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Monaghan is the next senior person to be heading for the exit door<\/a> as he is set to take up a position at Cadillac.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The series of departures comes at a time when Verstappen&#8217;s own future within the team is in doubt, with the Dutchman linked with a move to McLaren in recent weeks.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Sky F1, Brundle suggested Verstappen&#8217;s corner did \u201ctoo good a job\u201d of moving personnel out of the team.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goodness, they wanted to torpedo the management of Red Bull, didn&#8217;t they? Team Verstappen did that very well indeed,\u201d Brundle said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo start with Christian Horner, and it just carried on from there with Adrian Newey, Dr Helmut Marko and Jonathan Wheatley.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we know Paul Monaghan is leaving. I think they did a bit too good a job of wanting to move some people out of the way there at Red Bull, did Team Verstappen.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It has been reported in recent weeks that Verstappen&#8217;s management reached out to enquire about a potential future at McLaren.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Brundle insisted that it was simply doing its due diligence and covering all bases for Verstappen&#8217;s future.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a very small world down there, we&#8217;re always in the same 400 meters of concrete and asphalt every other weekend,\u201d he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery weekend, it&#8217;s their job to find out who&#8217;s available, and also when.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRon Dennis [former McLaren boss] used to be a genius at this. He used to have 12 of us on the phone, and we all thought we had a chance of getting in the McLaren.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll he was doing was just hoovering up knowledge that he was gathering from all the drivers of all the other teams at the same time.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s part and parcel of this rather small world that we&#8217;re in.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former F1 driver Martin Brundle has stated Max Verstappen&#8217;s F1 camp wanted to \u201ctorpedo\u201d the senior management structure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-509615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}