Reigning Formula One champion Red Bull began the 2024 season in typical dominant fashion on Saturday with a 1–2 finish at the Bahrain Grand Prix, but uncertainty is still clouding the team’s future in the wake of allegations surrounding principal Christian Horner.

“There is tension here while he remains in position,” star driver Max Verstappen’s father, Jos, told The Daily Mail. “The team is in danger of being torn apart. It can’t go on the way it is. It will explode. He is playing the victim, when he is the one causing the problems.” Jos Verstappen was seen arguing with Horner after Saturday’s race.

And his comments are just the latest strain on Red Bull in what has been a whirlwind of a month leading up to the start of the F1 schedule: