Christian Horner denies ‘hostage exchange’ of Red Bull F1 staff to Ferrari for Laurent Mekies
Red Bull’s sister team AlphaTauri recently announced they have hired Mekies from Ferrari as their💦 new team principal to repla💛ce long-standing boss Franz Tost, who will stand down at the end of the season.
The announcement annoyed Ferrari, with team boss Fred Vasseur criticising AlphaTauri for being 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“a bit aggressive” in how they confirmed Mekies’ signing before the details of his exit from his Ferrari contract had been ironed out.&n🧜bsp;
Reports have since💙 suggested that Feꦯrrari are looking to poach staff from Red Bull and that their early releases could hold the key to accelerating Mekies’ own switch to AlphaTauri.
However, Red Bull team 🏅principal Horner insisted there are no plans for any “senior or medium-level” personnel to move to Maranello.
“As usual, there’s plenty of speculation,” Horner said at the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Miami Grand Prix. “Will there be a hostage exchange for Laurent Mekies? Well w🔯e don’t have an༒y hostages.
“In terms of personnel 🔥moving to Ferrari, certainly at a senior or medium level, there’s nothi♛ng planned.
“Individuals that have been mentioned in connection with Ferrari c🗹ame to see me last week and mentioned their disbelief in some of these rumours.
“But it’s ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚFormula 1, that will inevitably happen. But there’s no plans for any senior members of our team to be joining Maranello.”
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