Red Bull react to Hamilton at Ferrari news: 'Are they swapping drivers?!'

Red Bull Racing have reacted to the shock transfer of Lewis Hamilton, who will move from Mercedes to Ferrari in 2025.

The Formula 1 team led by Christian Horner and Helmut Marko posted two posts on social media after the news was announced. One is a video of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez looking into the distance in bewilderment. Verstappen says: "They're not swapping drivers?" To which Perez replies, "Yes, they did."

Of course, the true context was slightly different: in reality, the drivers were racing in the Mojave Desert prior to the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Verstappen and Perez competed in hovercrafts against Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda, the drivers of sister team Visa Cash App RB (VCARB, formerly Scuderia AlphaTauri).

The Austrian team shared another post in which they nicely capitalised on the situation: the cooldown room in which the drivers recover after the race and discuss the race with each other was over time renamed the 'Max Verstappen podcast' as the Dutchman was almost always present, with different 'guests' each time. Today's news makes Red Bull wonder whether an 'emergency podcast' should be inserted.