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This is how the CV saga unfolded at the Miami Grand Prix

This is how the CV saga unfolded at the Miami Grand Prix

8 May - 09:00 Last update: 7 May - 14:59
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After the internal turmoil at Red Bull Racing and Adrian Newey's announcement to leave, Zak Brown was the first to comment on CVs arriving at McLaren from the Austrian team. As a result, every team principal had to respond to this question in Miami. Here is how last weekend's CV saga went down.

Horner is not concerned at all. "Not in the slightest, I don't know where these CVs are supposedly coming from, but we also get CVs every week," Briton responded in the paddock. Horner also believes the men with Mercedes engines in their car just want to destabilise his team.

How did the CV story begin?

Zak Brown was the first one to take a jab at Christian Horner and his team on Friday during the press conference, saying that now CVs from the Milton Keynes-based team are now showing up in Woking. Talking about Adrian Newey's resignment, the CEO also said. "I'm not surprised he's moving on. I think the stuff that's going on there is a bit destabilising".

Toto Wolff, Mercedes' team principal, also joined the party. After the Miami Grand Prix, the Austrian underlined that this is how usually things happen in the world of Formula One and that teams make transfers to improve, but also commented on the turmoil. "I am not really interested in what's going on there with the leadership. I'm not listening to anything anymore."

Finally, Frederic Vasseur, team boss at Ferrari, took a calmer approach on Sunday. The Frenchman first joked about Zak Brown joining the conflict of Oliver Mitzlaff and Toto Wolff "in the slipstream," then he confirmed he would rather stay out of it. However, he also mentioned that - as Lewis Hamilton will join the team -, his team are also getting CVs from Mercedes themselves.