Red Bull’s Christian Horner Takes a Dig at the FIA and Mercedes in Regard to the New Rules

Christian Horner is in the news again for his response to the new FIA rules. As he shares his opinions, Horner subtly takes a dig at the Silver Arrows team as well.

It is pretty standard for technical changes to take place in between a season if there seems to be a need for it. The teams are then required to adhere to the new rules and make the required changes.

The Flexi-floor change that took place this year was fueled with controversy that mainly involved Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes. Christian Horner strongly believes that this change was brought about in favor of the Silver Arrows. However, the FIA claims the reason for the change is to reduce issues with porpoising.

Horner recently appeared on a podcast, ‘Diary of a CEO’. There, he didn’t shy away from giving his honest thoughts on the subject. While explaining their approach to adapt to the new regulations, he took a slight dig at the FIA and Mercedes. He said, “It’s not uncommon for clarifications or technical directives, sometimes hidden behind the grounds of safety, to be introduced. It’s about how you adapt to those changes.”

“You can push against it but at a certain point, you’ve got to accept it and get on with it and think, ‘Okay, how can we turn s*** into fertilizer?” he concluded.

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Before the rule become official, Mercedes contributed to pushing the idea forth. They were in complete agreement with the FIA.

What did Mercedes have to say about the Technical Directive?

When the Debate regarding the TD took place before it got approved, Mercedes was the team that was in support of this decision. Mercedes believed that porpoising would eventually cause their driver long-term physical harm.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said, “The FIA has commissioned medical work on the porpoising. The summary of the doctors is that frequency of 1-2Hz, sustained over a few minutes, can lead to brain damage. We have 6-7Hz over several hours. So the answer is very easy: the FIA needs to do something about it.”

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Had the fans not had other things to look at, like the driver’s market fiasco and the cost cap breach, the TD would have been the talk of the town a lot longer.