Christian Horner on F1 rivalry with Toto Wolff and smashing headphones: Being best mates would be 'dishonest'
Horner and Wolff’s relationship has been one of the most analysed and documented in recent F1 history, with the pair publicly sparring 𝔍seve🅠ral times and regularly engaging in a war of words.
Tensions reached boiling point during 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s fierce season-long title battle in 2021 as Mercedes and Red Bull went head-to-head for both ♌world championships.
Although the rivalry betw💟een Mercedes and Red Bull has since cooled, Horner and Wolff still cannot♛ resist the urge to aim the odd barbed remark towards one another.
Asked what his relationship with Wolff was now like on Sky’s new Secrets of Success documentary, Horner told Nas🌌ser Hussain: ”Toto I have a huge amount of respect for everything that he has done and achieved.
"But we're competitors. I💜've never been a 𒊎believer that you can be the best mate with your competitor. I think it's dishonest.
"I want everybody in my team to see that whoever we're racing against is the competition, that's who we're there to compete with and as a team tha🐬t we're united.”
Asked the same question about Horner, Wolff simply responded: "He'🌸s aꦰ good team manager.
"But it's very different pers💮onality💛 and very different values to what we have here in the organisation. But he's still successful.”
Horner also referenced one of the images that defined the 2021 season as Wolff was seen smashing up his he🍌adphones in reaction to Hamilton and Verstappen’s dramatic collision at the Saudi Arabian G🌟rand Prix.
The Red Bull boss questioned Wolff’s style, suggesting it i😼s 🌊not the best way to manage an F1 team.
"Any sport is a mind game but when you see a camp ꦚpart losing it and smashing a set of headphones up you think 'OK, you're feeling the pressure'. And if he is feeling the pressure, then everybody else around him is feeling the pressure, because pressure permeates from the top,” Horner explained.
"I would never smash a set of headphones up. Internally I would have smashed mental♛ly those headphones ju💖st as hard as him but I just wouldn't have done it physically. I just think everybody is different."
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