With the farewell of Christian Horner, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has also lost one of his greatest rivals. The Austrian thinks this is a shame on the one hand, but on the other not, especially since Horner often exceeded the borders in his eyes.
In the course of recent years, Christian Horner and Toto Wolff have fought more, sometimes less mutually. They reached the absolute summit of their rivalry in the 2021 season when both sides regularly under the belt line. Not only Wolff thinks: Horner was much more often the deep racket in the common Formula 1 time.
On the one hand, he already missed the Red Bull team boss, said Wolff in a “Channel 4” interview. “Because he and I fought for twelve years.” But, according to the Mercedes boss: “He was very often an asshole. I told him that too.”
Horner was “a very polarizing and controversial” person in the Formula 1 paddock, added Wolff. “He was one of the main actors here.”
With Horner, a “dinosaurs” from Formula 1 disappeared
But what Horner was: the head of one of the most successful teams of the past 20 years. “The performance and results speak for themselves. As far as this is concerned, it is as if one of the old dinosaurs is gone. We are not there many of us team bosses. It feels a little lonely,” said Wolff to miss Horner a bit.
It is highly unlikely that Wolff at some point at Mercedes is the same fate, after all, he himself holds 30 percent of the team. “If I do not perform, I have to find a replacement for myself, then become the chair and criticize the team in the sun,” joked the 53-year-old.
In addition to Wolff, McLaren team boss Zak Brown had recently commented on Horner’s. In contrast to the Austrian, he does not mourn the ex-Red Bull boss. On the contrary. Brown even claimed that Formula 1 was better off without Horner.