Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has stated F1 is missing Christian Horner, who played a villain role in the paddock.<\/p>\n
Horner was dismissed from his team principal duties at Red Bull shortly after the British Grand Prix earlier this year.<\/p>\n
The Briton entered negotiations with Red Bull to discuss his severance deal, with an agreement reached between the two parties last month.<\/p>\n
Horner was one of the more outspoken personalities in the paddock and did not shy away from voicing his opinion – especially when it came to Wolff and Mercedes during the intensely fought 2021 campaign.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Sport Bild, Wolff was asked if he missed Horner on a personal level, to which he replied: “That would be a bit of an exaggeration.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it’s definitely different without Christian. He is definitely missed.<\/p>\n
“We need personalities in this sport. There has to be a villain. Christian was always good at that, because he also felt comfortable in that role.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe mastered the game with the camera and knew how to use it to his advantage. That is a bit lacking now, because there is no friction at the moment.”<\/p>\n
Horner has shown interest in making a return to F1, with Aston Martin and Haas confirming they received calls from the 51-year-old.<\/p>\n
Addressing Horner’s potential to return to the grid, Wolff said: “He has to decide that for himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t know if he feels he still has something to prove and wants to show that to everyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIn any case, he has shown that he knows how to get victories and win titles. You can’t deny him his success.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has stated F1 is missing Christian Horner, who played a villain role in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-200637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}