Horner also responds to Hamilton and Russell crash: 'That didn't happen'

One of the many moments that did not go unmentioned after the Qatar Grand Prix was the crash of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell. Max Verstappen started from P1, but from P2 it was Russell who had to defend at the action of seven-time world champion Hamilton, who started from third place. The result was one car on the gravel, and the other next to the podium.

Hamilton himself admitted in a post-race reaction that it was his fault, Red Bull Racing team boss Christian Horner also reacted to the incident between the two Mercedes drivers. When asked whether Russell and Hamilton could have posed a threat to Verstappen, who was driving up front, the British team boss does not have a one-two answer.

"I don't know," Horner told reporters after the Qatari Grand Prix. "I mean, I'm sure as a team, you never want to see that. The one thing you always ask your teammates to do is to give each other room and it didn't look like that happened today. I'm sure they've got their own internal discussion about that," concluded the English team boss of the Austrian racing stable.