With Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton duelling it out on track for🐓 ൲the 2021 Formula 1 drivers' championship, team bosses Toto Wolff and Christian Horner had their fair share of battles off it through the media. 

Despite both Wolff and Horner claiming they wanted to move on from the events in Abu Dhabi at the first 2022 pre-season test in Barcelona, both men have hit the headlines once agꦓain in re🥂cent weeks. 

With the release of Sky Sports' documentary, Duel: Hamilton vs Verstappen, Wolff made some bold claims.

The Mercedes boss explain🌌ed his view that a 'bromance' had emerged between former FIA race director Michael Masi andಞ Red Bull's Jonathan Wheatley. 

“Jonathan Wheatley has done his job,” Wolff said. “He’s tu🦂rꦐned Michael Masi the race director, not only in Abu Dhabi but before, and probably Max owes him a lot.”

Wolff also said that he has no plans to talk to Masi again 💯after his handling of the season finale at the Yas Mariღna Circuit.

“I haven’t sp𝓀oken to him and I don’t want to speak to him ever again,” Wolff adde𒐪d.

Horner has also been very outspoken, accusing ✨Mercedes of 'bullying' Masi out of ꧒his job.

In an interview with the BBC, “Was it right to fire him based on pressure that was placed on him from a rival team?✃ Thaಞt for me was wrong,” Horner explained. “That's tantamount to bullying. It's passively aggressive.

“We were on the receiving end of many of Michael's erꦺrors. But he is in a high-pressure role in a high-pressure sport. But what it is unforgivable is the trolling, t꧟he abuse online, the death threats that he and his family had. That absolutely cannot be condoned in any way.”

Hamilton and Verstappen have moved on ꩵfrom what happened in Abu Dhabi, so is it time for their respective team bosses to do the same? 

Check out our latest video as we assess the Wolff-Horner rivalry going into F1 2022𒅌.