Christian Horner has admitted to meeting with F1 race control during the Canadian Grand Prix weekend over Max Verstappen’s looming race ban.

The four-time world champion is one penalty point away from receiving a ban, which means if he steps out of line at the Austrian GP he would be forced to miss Silverstone.

Verstappen edged closer to a F1 race ban after he was ruled to have crashed purposefully into George Russell at the Spanish GP, and was slammed with three penalty points to his FIA Super Licence.

Both Russell and Verstappen found themselves on the front row of the grid together at the subsequent race in Montreal, with the rivals managing to get through the first corner unscathed on lap one.

The champion escaped further incident at the Canadian GP, and finished second behind Russell, who enjoyed his first race victory of the season.