{"id":294034,"date":"2023-10-22T21:54:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T21:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=294034"},"modified":"2023-10-22T21:54:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T21:54:35","slug":"christian-horner-explains-why-verstappens-engineer-skipped-debrief-after-us-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/racing\/f1\/christian-horner-explains-why-verstappens-engineer-skipped-debrief-after-us-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Horner explains why Verstappen’s engineer skipped debrief after US row"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christian Horner has explained the context behind Gianpiero Lambiase’s comments after the United States Grand Prix after the Red Bull engineer told Max Verstappen:\u00a0“I will see you Friday,” after the race.<\/p>\n

Verstappen and Lambiase’s relationship is now immortalised in F1 folklore with the pair regularly compared to a married couple thanks to their bickering over the team radio, and this was the case once again in Texas.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old was regularly complaining about the state of the brakes on his RB19 and he also had a moan at Lambiase on multiple occasions for talking to him in the braking zones.<\/p>\n

Therefore, when Lambiase came over the radio with a seemingly cryptic message after the race, fans were keen to know the context behind why the iconic engineer wouldn’t be seeing Verstappen until the Friday of the Mexican Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

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Dialling in to send his congratulations to Verstappen following his 50th win in F1, Lambiase said: “Well done, enjoy the celebrations. I will see you Friday.”<\/p>\n

Explaining the radio comments and the context behind Lambiase’s remark, Horner told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Well, you know it was not a code or anything like that, so the marital bliss between the two of them just rolls on.<\/p>\n

“He’s had to rush back to the UK so he was rushing to catch a flight so yeah, it used to be Helmut [Marko] that left the track early, now it’s the race engineer that’s straight out after the race.”<\/p>\n

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