Schumacher says Horner is 'ruining all his own work' with 'tasteless' comments
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Ralf Schumacher has slammed Christian Horner's 'tasteless' comments against Helmut Marko and warned the former Red Bull team principal that he is 'ruining all his own work' with the team.
Horner has spoken out about Marko in several interviews to promote the release of 'Drive', his tell-all autobiography about his 20 years in charge of Red Bull.
In one interview on the Up to Speed podcast, he said that he had to clean up 'mess' left behind by Marko, Red Bull's former motorsport advisor. Elsewhere, in an interview with German outlet BILD, he said that Marko was a big factor as to why he lost his job at Red Bull.
In response to Horner's comments about Marko, Schumacher told Sky Germany: "Unfortunately, it’s nothing new with Christian Horner that one or the other time was a bit tasteless.
“I think that’s a shame. He is ruining all his own work, because he was very successful together with the team. He played a major role in influencing the engine with which Red Bull won races here. He got the people and then did something like that. That’s just a shame and sad.”
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What did Horner say about Marko?
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In an interview with BILD, Horner said that it got to him that Marko was involved in his sacking at Red Bull. He said: “It really got to me that he was so actively involved in getting me sacked, whilst my ex-partner and the mother of my daughter had passed away shortly before. He didn’t even offer his condolences.”
Meanwhile, on the Up to Speed podcast, he said that Adrian Newey would go 'bananas' at upgrade details being leaked. Asked by cost-host Naomi Schiff whether he felt like he had to clean up messes made by Marko, he said: "You know, sometimes, yes. And there there periods where it was was fine, it was great, and everybody knew what their roles were. I think where it started to get a little bit messy was, as I say, after Dietrich passed.
He added: "And then, in the desire to become relevant, knowledge was that currency. And so, I would have engineers coming in, Adrian would go bananas at something that was in the media about an upgrade and, you know, he's so secretive about that kind of thing, that suddenly we were doing all our talking through the media, and then inevitably you end up having to mop elements of it up."
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