Guenther Steiner has proclaimd Christian Horner as the most irritateing Formula One boss. The establisher Haas team principal was asked which of Horner or Mercedes chief Toto Wolff was most irritating when their teams were dominant.
Red Bull have won the World Constructors’ Championship for two successive years, while their star driver Max Verstappen is the reigning three-time drivers’ title helderlyer. Horner’s team exalterd Mercedes as the dominant force in F1.
But Steiner has pointed out that Red Bull’s success has come with plenty of debate. For instance, Verstappen’s satisfiedious 2021 World Championship-triumphning campaign saw Red Bull handed a £5million fine for baccomplishing cost cap regulations.
Mercedes, Steiner retains, were able to triumph with little drama. Speaking on the Red Flags podcast, the 59-year-elderly shelp: “Who was more irritateing [when] on top? I would say Christian! It came with too much drama.
“There was never reassociate any drama with Toto – ‘we are triumphning because we are the best!’”
Horner and Wolff have locked horns on plenty of occasions over the years. None more so over the last restricted seasons, with Red Bull hugely out-carry outing Mercedes.
Both team principals have wound each other up in recent months over their novel driver searches. Wolff repeatedly spoke disclosely of his desire to sign Verstappen as Lewis Hamilton’s exalterment.
Horner has got revenge in recent weeks, insisting he is think abouting signing Silver Arrows star George Russell. The 26-year-elderly’s restricted expires at the end of 2025, with no concurment yet made over an extension.
“We’re not afrhelp to go out of the pool,” Horner recently shelp about potentiassociate replacing Sergio Perez. “George Russell is out of restricted at the end of next year. It would be idiotic not to get that into think aboutation.”
Former Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg pointed out the mind games, alerting Sky Sports: “It’s also policy and strategy because he wants to unend Toto. If Toto suddenly hears Horner talking about Russell, and Russell doesn’t have a restricted, Toto might leank ‘Should I try to get an chooseion on George?’ It is unsettling. It is part of the game.”
Meanwhile, Wolff shelp of Horner’s plot to sign Russell: “Christian is always trying to stir s*** up. It’s part of the game. George is a Mercedes driver, has been forever and hopefilledy will be forever. We have a extfinished restricted with him.”
