{"id":501306,"date":"2025-10-15T11:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/501306\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:10:12","slug":"christian-horner-set-for-awkward-lewis-hamilton-encounter-after-brutal-comments-made-f1-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/501306\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Horner set for awkward Lewis Hamilton encounter after brutal comments made | F1 | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton and Christian Horner<\/a> may need clear-the-air talks if the former adversaries end up working together at Ferrari.<\/a> Fresh speculation about Horner joining Ferrari<\/a> has emerged amid a hugely disappointing season for the Prancing Horse, who had been hoping to mount a championship challenge after finishing a close second to McLaren<\/a> in last year\u2019s constructors\u2019 championship.<\/p>\n

Ahead of this weekend’s United States Grand Prix, they are clinging onto third spot, a massive 352 points behind McLaren<\/a>, who have already wrapped up the teams’ title. The 51-year-old, who was ousted by Red Bull<\/a> in July, has been linked with various teams, including Aston Martin,<\/a> Alpine<\/a> and Haas. Horner has previously held talks with the Italian team and according to the Daily Mail,<\/a> Ferrari<\/a> chairman John Elkann remains keen on signing him to replace current boss Frederic Vasseur, who is under pressure<\/a> despite recently signing a new contract.<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Hollow victory’ claim<\/p>\n

Hamilton<\/a> and Horner in the same team would be a fascinating dynamic, given their previously frosty relationship. The pair were on opposite sides as Hamilton, then of Mercedes<\/a>, and Red Bull<\/a>\u2019s Max Verstappen<\/a> fought for the drivers\u2019 title in 2021.<\/p>\n

It was both a thrilling and toxic rivalry that led to clashes on and off the track. During that year\u2019s British Grand Prix, Hamilton and Verstappen collided at high speed, with the Dutchman being sent hurtling into the barriers with a 51G impact.<\/p>\n

Hamilton was deemed at fault and was hit with a 10-second penalty, but still went on to win the race. A furious Horner didn\u2019t believe the penalty went far enough and was openly critical of Hamilton, calling it a \u201chollow victory.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cHe shouldn\u2019t be making manoeuvres like that. It is unacceptable. Thank goodness the biggest result for us today is that he is uninjured. I hope Lewis is very happy with himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horner added: \u201cLewis has more than enough experience to know that is unacceptable. I\u2019m very disappointed that a driver of his calibre should make such a move. It\u2019s dangerous. For me, it\u2019s a hollow victory.\u201d
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But Hamilton insisted it was a racing incident as he fired back at Horner, saying: \u201cI don\u2019t really have anything to say to Christian. The win doesn\u2019t feel hollow. I don\u2019t think I am in a position to have to apologise for anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamilton’s ‘selective memory’<\/p>\n

In another barb, Horner accused Hamilton of having a \u201cselective memory\u201d after the seven-time world champion highlighted Red Bull<\/a>\u2019s dominance in 2023, when they won all but one race.<\/p>\n

Horner made reference to Hamilton\u2019s own domination while at Mercedes<\/a>, where he won six drivers\u2019 title in seven years. Speaking on the Eff Won with DRS podcast,<\/a> he said: \u201cI feel like he\u2019s got selective memory.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you know, some of the winning that they did in that period was just obscene. We\u2019ve had a good run for a couple of years, but the one guy that shouldn\u2019t be saying that, I would think, is Lewis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horner rules out Hamilton move<\/p>\n

In the same year, Horner insisted there was no prospect of Hamilton racing for Red Bull<\/a> after claiming Hamilton\u2019s father, Anthony, had approached him about a seat. In turn, Lewis insisted: \u201cNo one from my team has reached out to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horner then attempted to set the record straight, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s a question of he said, she said, who said, what said. It\u2019s entirely normal for drivers, drivers\u2019 representatives, drivers\u2019 parents to have different conversations during the course of a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t had any serious discussion with Lewis, there was never a seat available. I\u2019ve known Anthony Hamilton for many years, he\u2019s a good guy, a proud racing father.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bringing up Hamilton\u2019s lack of success since 2021, Horner pointedly added: \u201cInevitably, when drivers go through tough spots\u2026 Let\u2019s face it, Lewis hasn\u2019t won a Grand Prix for two years. Questions will be asked up and down the paddock. There was never any engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton and Christian Horner may need clear-the-air talks if the former adversaries end up working together at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[24994,4199,12202,997,707,164429,4200,998,226,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-501306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-christian-horner","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-section","11":"tag-ferrari","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula-1-rivalry","14":"tag-formula1","15":"tag-lewis-hamilton","16":"tag-red-bull","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115377879488190786","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}