Red Bull and Mercedes endured a tumultuous relationship during 2021 that only got more and more contentious towards the end of the season and spilled over into the winter break. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, while speaking to the Daily Mail, has offered a few interesting viewpoints on this

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Christian Horner Makes Multiple Controversial Statements About Mercedes

Horner began by comparing himself to Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff

“We are very different. If I'm not at the racetrack, I’m in the factory. I’m not living as a tax exile in Monaco, running a team remotely I am hands-on”

He then hypothesized why Mercedes dislike Red Bull

“We are a bit more of a maverick than any other team and that is why Mercedes have not been able to control us. Either through engine supply or drivers”

“Mercedes have done that with pretty much every other team over past years. There has been an element of influence. There isn’t that influence with Red Bull and that makes us a very dangerous competitor”

“That inability to control us is at the heart of the tension between us. They are a very controlling group. That is Toto’s mantra”

He signed off by suggesting that Red Bull’s foray into powetrains only made things more hostile

“Suddenly, we are playing in their back yard with the engine too. How can an energy drinks company build a chassis that takes on and beats Mercedes, Ferrari, Renault, McLaren? It sits very uncomfortably”


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Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton has stated that “not many people know this, my mother’s last name is Larbalestier” [Statement at Dubai Expo]

“I’m going to put that in my name”

“I want my mother’s surname to go along with the legacy of the Hamilton surname”

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen feels that he and Red Bull “get along very well. It feels very good, natural and familiar” [Verstappen.com]

“We also always had the belief in each other that we could become world champions”

“We have achieved that together now, of course, and I therefore see no reason to want to be with another team”

Haas team principal Guenther Steiner thinks that “Mick [Schumacher] is happy to have somebody to learn from and to have a benchmark” [F1i]

“We can see where he is and also he can improve”

“He will have an experienced driver looking at data, working with somebody who knows this car from driving very similar cars for six years. It’s very good”

F1’s technical director Pat Symonds stated that “everyone who had tried [the 2022 car] said it was much easier to follow” [Soy Motor]

“[Alex] Albon was the one who gave me the most interesting answer: ‘I had to reprogram myself’”

“’I couldn’t imagine following the car in front so closely without problems’”

McLaren’s Lando Norris pointed out that in Netflix’s Drive To Survive “there’s a shot of [him] and Daniel side by side in turn one when we’re not even close and I’m claiming he’s pushing me off, which is from a completely different race” [The Independent]

“From my side it looks good, but maybe not so much from Daniel’s side. There are some comments here and there that might be out of place”

“It can make it seem like you said something at a time and place that is definitely not right”


Did Netflix’s Drive To Survive season 4 push it too far with its creative liberties?