There's been a pile on about Honda's speculated involvement in the deal and what it means for Red Bull going forward, but there is an uncomfortable issue bubbling under here that Christian Horner's team risk repeating in a similar nightmare scenario.

Red Bull Racing's top brass, Christian Horner and Helmut Marko, are at risk at the Austrian team, GPblog has learned. Furthermore, should Red Bill fail to keep Max Verstappen in its ranks, the 81 year old chief advisor would consider that a good reason to leave F1.

Yuki Tsunoda will now become Max Verstappen's sixth team-mate at Red Bull when he takes to the grid in the company's second seat at the Japanese Grand Prix after Liam Lawson was dropped