Speaking to Formula.hu, a frank Wolff admitted that while Horner had \u201cbehaved like an arsehole\u201d during his time at Red Bull the sport had been left without one of its strongest personalities.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do I think? Well, that he has behaved like an arsehole quite often over the last 12-15 years,\u201d Wolff told the publication.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe operates according to completely different values, but even the greatest enemy has a best friend.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the other hand, he was extremely successful in what he did. Now that he\u2019s gone, at least for a while, a real personality has left the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Horner and Wolff had their disagreements, most notably in 2021 during the intense fight between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen for the world championship, which ended in a dramatic and controversial final race in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n
Tensions continued to bubble away even after Verstappen\u2019s contentious title victory, with both Wolff and then Mercedes star Lewis Hamilton deciding to boycott the FIA year-ending gala in protest.<\/p>\n
Before then there was the \u2018flexi-wing\u2019 row between Red Bull and Mercedes, while both teams also clashed over claims the other was treated more fairly by the stewards and race director at the time.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThose years, but especially 2021, weren\u2019t just about Max and Lewis, but also about Christian and me,\u201d Wolff said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s more, it was really difficult at times, and that\u2019s in all the history books and will remain there.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, he always said that I loved to hate him. So who should I hate now? It looks like I\u2019ll have to find someone else\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
While Wolff and Horner had their differences, the former joked that outside of himself and potentially Ferrari\u2019s Fred Vasseur, there aren\u2019t many \u201cold-style team boss dinosaurs\u201d left with the former Red Bull boss out of the picture.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was controversial and divisive, but he was one of the main characters here,\u201d Wolff said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can safely say that he was as significant as one of (the) drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toto Wolff has reflected on his divisive but complicated relationship with \u201carsehole\u201d Christian Horner, the former Red Bull…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-96077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96077","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=96077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}