Horner on Toto Wolff: 'There's no relationship, it's competition'

The press conference with Christian Horner and Toto Wolff promised fireworks, and that's what we got. Tensions were running high between the two teams as they were told by the stewards during the session about the verdict of the incident between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. Horner and Wolff have clashed before in 2021, although the Red Bull top executive is not worried about it.

"There's no relationship. It's competition. I think respect and relationship are two different things. I don't have to have dinner with Toto, I don't have to kiss his a** or anything like other team bosses would do," he spoke plainly, quoted by Motorsport-Magazin.com . Wolff in turn responded, "We are in the ring and trying to do our job as best we can. The elbows are used because the rules allow it."

Horner agrees with stewards

It has since become clear that Verstappen will not receive a penalty for his defensive action towards Hamilton in Brazil. It took quite a while for clarity to come from the stewards. "It's frustrating that it takes so long, the discussion was already yesterday. Is it new, yes, maybe," he said of the 'new' evidence Mercedes put forward. "Is it relevant? I guess you could say. Is it important? Certainly not."

The stewards were of the same opinion and, according to Horner, that is just as well. "If they go down that road, then every single incident will be scrutinised, pictures of iPhones or whatever could then be classed as new and important," Horner concluded his story at the press conference.