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Red Bull retracts claims as Antonelli hit with abuse

Dec.2 Red Bull has publicly backtracked after Kimi Antonelli was bombarded with online abuse – including apparent death threats – following accusations he deliberately helped Lando Norris in Qatar. The 19-year-old Mercedes rookie blacked out his social media profiles and locked his accounts after receiving more than a thousand hostile messages. Toto Wolff immediately alerted the FIA, prompting the governing body to intervene. Red Bull issued a rare formal statement distancing itself from the insinuations made by Dr Helmut Marko and Max Verstappen's race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase. 'Replay footage shows Antonelli momentarily losing control of his car, thus allowing Norris to...
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