report that there is “a civil war” inside the F1 constructors’🍎 champions ahead🥀 of the United States Grand Prix this weekend.

“💞Just being team boss at Red Bull is no longeꦫr enough” for Horner, it is reported.

He wants to “get rid of” Helmut Marko and be in sole charge of Red Bull and its sister team AlphaTau🌳ri.

Marko was a key ally o💦f Red Bul✃l founder Dietrich Mateschitz, who died a year ago, and still retains the backing of new boss Oliver Mintzlaff.

“Horner had planned and is still planning the coup,” it is remarkably report♌ed.

It is claimed that he sought support from Red Bull’s 51 percent shareholders from Thailand before attempting to recruit Bradley Lord - Mercedes’ chief of communiﷺcations who acted as Toto Wolff’s stand-in at the past two grands prix - as new team principal of AlphaTauri.

That plan did not work.

Horner lent support to Peter 𓆉♎Bayer, new CEO of AlphaTauri. But the addition of Laurent Mekies to AlphaTauri was Marko’s call.

Horner’s “role was discussed” in a meeting between M𓂃arko and Mintzlaffඣ, the report claims.

Mintzlaff will be in the paddock i🦩n Austin thi🍸s weekend.

Max Verstappen has pledged his loyalty to Marko in conversations with Mintzlaff al💧ready.

Horner responded to these claims by telling : "Without Helmut, I wouldn't be in the positionꦉ that I am today.

“Like ꦚwith the yo🅰ung drivers that he has given an opportunity, he also gave me that opportunity. 

“We've always enjoyed a very strong and open relationship. Of cours𝕴e, there are t🍨hings that we disagree on now and again, but I think that's healthy.”