Christian Horner pokes fun at Toto Wolff over racing career: “I raced, Toto took part…”
Horner speꦐnt his early years racing🎃 in International Formula 3000 with Arden International.
He took a step back from racing at the end of 1998 before moving🍒 into the man🌠agement of the team.
Several years before that, Wolff started his own racing career in Germany, ♛competing in Austrian and German Formula Ford.
While both dꦦidn’t enjoy much success driving, Horner♊ and Wolff will go down as two of F1’s greatest-ever team principals.
Under Horner’s stewardship, Red Bull have won six drivers’ ☂and five constructoඣrs’ championships, while with Wolff in charge, Mercedes won eight consecutive constructors’ titles between 2014 and 2021.
Speaking in an interview with the Financial Times, Horner🥀 was asked whether his - and Wolff’s ⛄experience as racing drivers - gives them an advantage as team principal.
He replied: “I raced, Toto took part, and of course it gives you an insight 🥂to the emotio𓃲ns that the driver goes through and some of the challenges.
“It’s quite a lonely place sitting in that cockpit and when you look out, you want to feel you have a team that believes in you, that they’ve got your back and that💫 inspires confidence. I think for me that was the key thing that I took out of my driving time and having driven for good teams and not-so-good teams -💎 it was all about the people in the end.
“I think like in any business it’s all about people🔜 and how they work together.♏”
Horner expanded further on why he thinks he’s been successful as team p꧃rincipal.
“Personally I just enjoy working with pe♋ople - trying to get the best out of them and working collectively as a team, setting clear goals and objectives. Just listenin🐽g and trying to help them,” he added.
“I am not a qualified engineer, I am an ex-d🍰river. I have never been on a management training course🍸 in my life and for me it’s about how you empower people, how you give them that confidence, how you give them clear guidance of what’s needed to work collectively as a group.”
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