Although the team deny that they have parted ways with their driver, Scuderia Toro Rosso racer Scott Speed has resigned himself to the fact that he will no longer be racing for the team after revealing some very intense moments that occurred after he spun into the gravel in the treacherous conditions at the recent European Grand Prix.

Like many other racers, such as Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, Speed spun off at turn one in the opening laps of Sunday’s race and after making his way back to the pits, found himself on the receiving end of a very irate team boss, Franz Tost. Speed claims that Tost punched him in the back when he was walking back to the garage and then followed him behind a partition and grabbed him by the fire suit below the throat and shook him back and forth.

Tost denied Speed’s allegations in an interview with the German press claiming that all he did was touch his driver on the shoulder, and it was this denial that prompted Speed to tell all….

"Initially I didn't want to come out in the press and talk about this, because after the race Franz spent 15 minutes apologising for his behaviour, because it was clear to everyone that he was way out of line," Speed said this afternoon,” he told Autosport’s Adam Cooper. “But after coming out and denying this stuff, it's just another very dishonest thing that Franz or [team co-owner] Gerhard [Berger] have said in the media to damage me and [teammate] Tonio Liuzzi. And at this point, I've had enough. And I know that it's going to hurt Red Bull, and that's definitely not my intention, because Dietrich Mateschitz and Red Bull have been a huge support to me. They're the reasons I have achieved everything I have in motor racing. But Franz Tost in particular is out of control.”

“I turned away and walked towards the garage, and I guess he must have caught up behind me. When he reached me, he hit me in the middle of the back with a closed fist. Everyone in the team saw it. As I was leaving the garage he then followed me behind the partition, where none of the mechanics could see. He grabbed me from the front of my shirt, jerked me around, ripping a little bit my fire suit, and pushed me against the wall. After that my only response was to back up in the middle of the garage and ask him if he wanted to hit me in front of everyone else."

Immediately after this had occurred, Speed explained that he furiously walked back to pit wall with the intention of telling everyone what had just happened…..

“I looked at my team manager, the technical director, and Gerhard Berger, and told them that if my team chief ever touches me again, I'm going to knock him out. They said 'OK, let's try to calm this whole situation down'. I said fine, and I went back in my room [in the motorhome] and I stayed there until the end of the race. At which point, Gerhard and Franz both came back. Franz was calmed down and spent 15 minutes apologising for his behaviour."

Speed also revealed that Tost and Berger are very dishonest when speaking to the media and he is a little concerned that their dishonesty could ruin his relationship with Red Bull, however, as far as his future in F1 is concerned….