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The gloves are off

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Red Bull and Renault have both been openly criticising each other since the Australian Grand Prix, with Christian Horner unhappy at the lack of progress since the end of 2014. Renault Sport F1 managing director Cyril Abiteboul is unhappy at the way the power unit is being used as a scapegoat and accused Red Bull's Adrian Newey of "lies" this week. With Abiteboul and Horner both in the FIA Press Conference on Friday, will things settle down by then? Probably not, after Abiteboul tweeted this photo of boxing gloves ahead of his trip to Malaysia...

Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.