Horner addresses McLaren's review: 'They can't stop talking about Red Bull'
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- Nicole Mulder
Team principal Christian Horner does not believe McLaren so-called 'right to review' will be successful ahead of the Mexico City Grand Prix. The Briton says that their rivals have no new evidence, and believes there is a different reason why McLaren opted to review the stewards' decision from last weekend.
Red Bull representatives had to appear in front of the FIA stewards' about the 'right to review' requested by their rivals McLaren. The Woking-based team decided to take their option with the review, but both team principal Andrea Stella and CEO Zak Brown said they believe it is unlikely that the call will be overturned by the stewards.
Horner: 'McLaren are quite vocal about everything'
"I didn't catch all of that. I think it was mainly about McLaren and accusations that are being made. Well, first of all, in terms of a war of words, I'm always intrigued to read that, because I don't think we've been making too many comments about McLaren," Horner begin about the matter on Friday, ahead of the decision being made by the stewards.
"Obviously, they've raised their right of review over last weekend, which is their right, and the FIA will hear that through their process. Now, inevitably, when you're running at the sharp end, then everything comes under more scrutiny, and you can feel that, certainly, McLaren are being quite vocal certain aspects about many parts of our team, our car, stewards, et cetera," he added.
Horner responds to McLaren protest
Horner believes their rivals do not have anny new information for the stewards, and believes the right decision was made at COTA last Sunday. "There's a criteria that it has to fill. Whether it fills that, I'm not sure. I don't think there is any new evidence. So, look, you have to trust in the in the process. I think that the stewards are in difficult positions. I felt that the calls they made were absolutely fair and right at the weekend, you can't overtake a car off the circuit."
"That's where we are. It's McLaren's right to invoke that. They would have been, probably, ruining the fact that they didn't let Max back pass, because they had such a pace advantage at that part of the race with the overlap of the fresher tyre that they would have probably quite easily passed Max in those last last four laps anyway," Horner concluded about the incident between Lando Norris and Max Verstappen.
This article was written in collaboration with Nicole Mulder
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