Christian Horner begins mind games with Ferrari’s Fred Vasseur, and digs at Mercedes and Williams over James Vowles move
Former Renault, Sauber and Alfa Romeo boss Fred Vasseur has taken over at Maranello, replacing Mattia Binotto, while Vowles left his role at Mercedes to become the team principal at🥂 Williams.
Red Bull’s Horner knows these moves will shake-up the dynꦿamic in the paddock ahead of the F1 2023 campaign and has taken ai🎉m at his new rivals.
Horner said to about Mercedes allowing Vowles t♏o be released early from his job as chief strategist to move 🌳to Williams: "Is there anything attached to that?
“Williams w🐷ould have obviously done what's right for them and right for their business.
“But only they will know what has been agreed for that early rel𒈔ease tꦆo have happened.
"I don't know James particularly we♐ll, but he's obviously a very capable guy.
"Williams will have done their due diligence and research and I think it's great that they're giving him the chance to make that step up. So I think th🌱at can only be good news for W🦹illiams.”
Horner addressed new Ferrari boss Vasseur: “It will be interesting to see if he’s still arguing about the same points that he was for Sauber in upcoming meetin🔜gs!
“But again, he’s a very capable guy. So it will be ve💃ry interesting. I’m sure they’re all very capable people.
“So we’ll get toꦉ see what the dynamics are at the next Formula 1 Commission meeting.”
The Red Bull team principal said ab🌟out Binotto, who became the latest to leave the Ferrari job: “It has been interesting to watch the movement.
“I have sympathy for Mattia, beca💝use ultimately he’d done a good j💜ob.
“Last year, that was a big step forward from where 🦄they had been, so that must be tough for him after such long servic🗹e that he had given to Ferrari.”
James was a spo𓃲rts journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
