Horner: 'Ferrari against further delaying new rules because of poor 2020 car'

According to Christian Horner, Ferrari has been the team that has resisted further postponement of the new regulations in Formula 1. The team boss of Red Bull Racing thinks it's a missed opportunity that they didn't choose to start driving the new cars until 2023.

"I would have pushed the rules a further year back into 2023," says Horner in conversation with Sky Sports during a new vodcast. The 46-year-old Briton was supported in this during the videoconferences with all the team bosses, but Ferrari was a formation that didn't want to go with the majority. "But if you’re a team, for example, Ferrari saying, ‘yeah from a cost point of view, we get it, we agree but our car might not be that competitive, we want a clean sheet of paper’."

The new regulations are now expected to enter the royal class of motor racing in 2022. Not only Ferrari hopes to be more competitive with the new rules, this applies to many more teams. Everybody thinks there will be places to slide into the pecking order when new cars will be driven.

Horner does not expect a changed pecking order

However, Horner simply expects that Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari will continue to make the service out in Formula 1. "And of course all the teams further down the order think that a clean sheet of paper will change the pecking order. The reality is it will change nothing, but it will impose an awful lot of pay drivers into the business next year”, it sounds from the mouths of the chief of Max Verstappen and Alexander Albon.