Christian Horner and Zak Brown butt heads on controversial McLaren rear wing

"It sets a precedent," Red Bull boss warns

Christian Horner
Christian Horner

Zak Brown has dismissed Christian Horner’s unease at McLaren’s rear wing which is at the 🙈centre of contro💖versy in Singapore.

The FIA have passed the rear wing on the MCL38 which caught rꦯivals’ eyes when Oscar Piastri won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

F1’s latest flexi-wing debate has inevitably caught Red Bull’s attention, after the🏅y were overtaken in the constructors’ ch𝕴ampionship by McLaren.

“Obviously it passed t🌠he test,” Red Bull team principal Horner told Sky Sports iℱn Singapore.

“As long as the FIA are happy…

“Well, it sets a precedent. We don’t want to rush to desi💧gn wings ꧅that deform like that.

“If it’ꦦs deemed okay then everybody will 💞do the same.”

Horner was asked if rivals would replicate the꧂ design but 🦹he replied: “I’d be surprised if we saw it again.”

McLaren CEO Brown responded to Horner: “He’🐻s spot on. It has been passed by the FIA. These Formula 1 engineers are very clever.

“[Red Bull] have had awesome race ca♍rs for the past decade.

“It has pass📖ed the test. Good on our team for coming up with somet🐼hing that is high performance.”

Brown addℱed: “It has passed 🌠every single test. It’s clever engineering. The FIA is fine with it, so it’s business as usual.

“It’s inevitable now that we’re leading the championship that everyone will look at our car and say ‘we don’t like that’. That’s 🅷the nature of the game.”

Sky Sports’ Martin Brundle suggested that McLaren would🍎 come under more scrutin𒈔y as the constructors’ championship leaders.

“Youඣ try to cut down the tall sunf💯lowers,” Brundle said to Brown.

“There are two ways of winning - go faster,꧑ orꩲ slow the others down.”

Brown replied: “It’s great for the championship. We are at the front. “There are th𓆉ings that work well on our race car.

“Everyone else will try to speed up, a🎉nd slow us down at the same time.”

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