{"id":391496,"date":"2024-05-07T02:10:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T02:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=391496"},"modified":"2024-05-07T05:06:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T05:06:56","slug":"horner-rips-rival-bosses-over-movement-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=391496","title":{"rendered":"Horner rips rival bosses over 'movement' comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red Bull<\/a> team principal Christian Horner<\/a> has responded to rival Formula 1<\/a> team bosses Toto Wolff<\/a> and Zak Brown's comments around a flood of personnel wanting out of the constructor.<\/p>\n

While the team \ufeffcontinues to dominate both championships, the Milton Keynes-based squad is enveloped in scandal.<\/p>\n

Misconduct allegations levelled at Horner<\/a> earlier this year reportedly triggered a falling out between key members of the team.<\/p>\n

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\"Red<\/p>\n

Horner has always denied the claims and was cleared by an internal investigation in February<\/a> but a second probe is now underway after the female staff member at the centre of the allegations appealed the decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The \ufeffinternal turmoil has since seen chief technical officer and design guru Adrian Newey announce he will depart the team<\/a> early next year.<\/p>\n

During the Miami Grand Prix<\/a>, \ufeffBrown declared that Newey's exit would be "destabilising" for the champion team and foresaw several other leading figures racing for the door.<\/p>\n

The head of McLaren said Newey was "the first domino to fall".<\/p>\n

"My guess is [Newey is] not the last based on the resumes that are flying around. We've seen an increase in CVs coming our way from the [Red Bull] team," he said.<\/p>\n

Mercedes \ufeffboss Wolff also stated that his team had received many resumes from a considerable amount of Red Bull staffers across all roles.<\/p>\n

\"McLaren<\/p>\n

Horner hit back at the pair's comments, arguing that both should be more concerned with problems in their own teams.<\/p>\n

\ufeff"It's inevitable," he said of Brown and Wolff's comments.<\/p>\n

"You know the two candidates involved. They talk a lot. I'm not going to get sucked into a tit-for-tat but I'd be more focused on Toto's own issues that he has.<\/p>\n

"I don't have any concern about [our] strength and depth \u2026 of course, there is always going to be movement between teams."<\/p>\n

Horner also claimed that Red Bull had poached more than 200 members of Mercedes' engine team in recent years.<\/p>\n

"We've taken 220 people out of HPP [Mercedes High Performance Powertrains] into Red Bull Powertrains. So, when we talk about losing people, I would be more worried about the 200, not one or two," he said.<\/p>\n

Speaking on \ufeffSky Sports F1, leading commentator and former driver Martin Brundle shared how asked Horner directly if the team was facing a revolving door of departures.<\/p>\n

"I had a long private conversation with Christian as well and I said, 'Will you have a mass exodus'?," he said.<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/p>\n

"If you've been part of a multiple championship winning team, you've got extra value if you change teams.<\/p>\n

"It's a pretty small world we operate in.<\/p>\n

"He went through, not too many specifics, but key people and departments that he's got in place because he knew Adrian was going to do this, sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n

"He did a good job of convincing me that he's got great people looking at the chassis, the aero, the power unit [ahead of the new regulations coming into effect in 2026]."<\/p>\n

Newey's departure adds to the speculation around star driver Max Verstappen\ufeff's future.<\/p>\n

Verstappen is reportedly also on unfavourable terms with the team following the controversy with Horner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has responded to rival Formula 1 team bosses Toto Wolff and Zak Brown's comments around a flood of personnel […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":373908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391499,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391496\/revisions\/391499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/373908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}