Ahead of the British Grand Prix, Red Bull Racing announced the termina💫tion of Vips contract as the team’s test and reserve driver after he was heard using r🌠acist language during a live stream of a video game. 

He was immedia✤te⭕ly suspended while Red Bull carried out a full investigation into the incident. 

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mahbx.com understands that while Vips’ association with Oracle Red Bull Racing has come to an end, the 21-year-old Estonian is being retained by Red💯 Bull’s young driver programme, despite having his profile removed from their official website. 

Red Bull tea🌄m principal Christian Horner has confirmed the Milton Keyneꦆs outfit will support Vips “from a mental health and educational perspective”. 

“We have cancelled our agreement with him and that will undoubtedly give hi𝐆m time for reflectio𓆉n,” Horner told the Press Association. 

“Everybody at some point deserves a second chance, if they can show that they have really learnt fromꦜ their mꦍistakes.

“He is a young guy, a young kid, and we will be supporting ꦏhim – even though he has had his agreement terminated – from a mental healꦓth and educational perspective. Hopefully he will learn from it.”

Vips wil⛄l complete the 2022 F2 season with Hitech and raced with a plain black helmet - without any Red Bull sponsorship - during last weekend’s round at Silverstone. 

“That is their [Hitech’s] decision and we are not funding that drive in any way,” Horner added. ꧙“That is purely the choice of that F2 team and they have their ow🦩n reasons for the actions they have taken.”