Red Bull chief Christian Horner has blasted Lewis Hamilton and accused the 37-year-old of having a 'selective memory'.
The Briton has struggled so far this season and, with just two races remaining, is yet to win a single one.
Hamilton was once dominant, winning six Formula One crowns in seven years between 2014 and 2020.
He fears for the future, however, and recently said Red Bull were likely to dominate for many years to come.
Christian Horner has ripped into Lewis Hamilton and said the F1 star has 'selective memory'
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Yet Horner, speaking to the Eff Won with DRS podcast, has now accused Hamilton of having a 'selective memory'.
“I feel like he’s got selective memory," said the Red Bull chief.
"So you know, some of the winning that they did in that period was just obscene.
"We’ve had a good run for a couple of years, but the one guy that shouldn’t be saying that I would think, is Lewis.”
Mercedes have endured a torrid campaign and look set to end the season without a single win to their name.
And, instead of Hamilton, it's Verstappen who is now the driver on top of the sport.
Ever since his fortunate title triumph in 2021, the 26-year-old hasn't looked back.
Verstappen has won a staggering 17 races so far this season, with Red Bull's dominance showing no signs of losing down.
And Horner has said there's little chance of him letting Sergio Perez win a race any time soon.
"Somewhere between zero and one, I would say," he said when asked about the chances of that happening.
"Checo, I don't think he's going to need that help, Max is focused on his thing.
"He doesn't want to leave anything on the table.
"He's focused on an incredible year that he's been having, and he just wants to keep winning.
"Checo shouldn't need that help from Max and we saw that yesterday."
Meanwhile, regarding Hamilton, the Stevenage-born racer moaned about the Mercedes W14 chassis after his poor showing at the Brazil Grand Prix on Sunday.
"My guess is that the floor is not working," he said after the Silver Arrows' disastrous showing in South America.
"The floor is not sucking it down so that pushed us to go to a higher wing, and then we're just massively draggy on the straights.
"We're losing so much time on the straights, there's nothing I can do about it.
"Then we're just sliding through the corners, so we have to look into why that is the case on this rough circuit."
He continued: "Nothing changed in the car from yesterday to today so I knew it'd be a tough one.
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"Yesterday I just ate through the tyres with an unexpected lack of pace; I drove better today in terms of making my stints but we were just slow.
"I'm sure there's something within the set-up that we might have been able to have done a bit better, but whether or not that would have put us further up, I can't say.
"It's a setback, but as a team we'll just come together and we'll try and push forward.
"There'll be a lot of analysis this week after today and I'm sure there'll be things like 'Ah maybe if we've done this, it would have been better.'
"I still think that ultimately the car didn't work here for some reason, and that is the way it is."
