{"id":156942,"date":"2025-06-04T07:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T07:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156942\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T07:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T07:49:07","slug":"red-bull-f1-chief-christian-horner-gives-shock-mercedes-team-boss-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156942\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull F1 chief Christian Horner gives shock Mercedes team boss verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner<\/a> has made a shock verdict about Mercedes boss Toto Wolff<\/a>, as the pair’s rivalry rumbles on. <\/b><\/p>\n

\nHorner and his opposite number Wolff have been embroiled in a fierce rivalry since Mercedes<\/a>‘ dominant era in the mid to late 2010s, but it especially came to a head during the almighty 2021 championship battle. <\/p>\n

\nF1 HEADLINES:<\/b> Hamilton delivers doomed Ferrari verdict as F1 star mocked after Spanish GP<\/a> <\/p>\n

\nWolff’s star driver Lewis Hamilton<\/a> lost out to Horner’s Max Verstappen<\/a> on the last lap of the last race of the season in 2021, and since then Verstappen and Red Bull have gone on to dominate the sport. <\/p>\n

\nTheir exchanges have regularly been cheekily barbed one way or another in the past few seasons, with Wolff’s ‘yapping little terrier’ remark<\/a><\/b> about Horner the latest in a long line of petty arguments between the two. <\/p>\n

\nHowever, now Horner has revealed that his Mercedes counterpart has done a ‘great job’ at the team, with Mercedes now sat above Red Bull in the constructors’ championship<\/a><\/b>, a rare sight since that 2021 season. <\/p>\n

\n“I came into the sport in the days of Ron Dennis, Jean Todt, Flavio Briatore, Frank Williams and Bernie Ecclestone,” Horner told Bild<\/a>. “They were gentlemen. <\/p>\n

\n“Back then, you tried to beat each other by any means necessary on the track and then shake hands again. <\/p>\n

\n“Unfortunately, times have changed a bit, there’s more whispering than talking straight, but there are still a lot of people today that I respect. Stefano Domenicali is one of them. Toto Wolff is also doing a great job at Mercedes.” <\/p>\n

Red Bull’s 2025 struggles<\/p>\n

\nRed Bull’s dominance over the rest of the field began to wane in 2024, when Lando Norris<\/a> was able to challenge Verstappen for the drivers’ championship and McLaren<\/a> pipped the Milton Keynes-based outfit to the constructors’ title. <\/p>\n

\nIn 2025, their struggles have been even more evident, with the team currently sat down in fourth in the constructors’ standings, and Verstappen’s hopes of a fifth consecutive title beginning to fade.<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n

\nPart of that has been down to the remarkable rise of McLaren under the stewardship of Andrea Stella and Zak Brown, who has seemingly become Horner’s latest nemesis. <\/p>\n

\nThe Red Bull boss was caught on Netflix’s Drive to Survive show calling the American a ‘p****’, during a tumultuous time when Horner was under investigation for alleged inappropriate behaviour against a female colleague, something he denied and was later cleared of by an internal Red Bull investigation. <\/p>\n

\nSince then, the two teams have been involved in fierce championship battles, while Wolff’s Mercedes have languished behind the two teams, perhaps acting as a cooling off period for the rivalry between Wolff and Horner. <\/p>\n

\nREAD MORE:<\/b> FIA announce second penalty demotion after dramatic Spanish Grand Prix<\/a><\/p>\n

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