Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, accused his opposite figure at Mercedes, Toto Wolff, of overstating the commute of the current generation of Formula One cars.
New technical regulations in place during the winter have had a major impact on this year’s F1 cars, resulting in some cars being jostled in collisions as well as being prone to aerodynamics called porpoising, is also the cause of vehicles bouncing uncontrollably on their suspension system.
On Baku’s bumpy streets a week ago, problems flared up for some teams so severe that the sport’s governing body, the FIA, decided to intervene for safety reasons by introduce a technical directive (TD) to the police.
However, details of the FIA’s intervention have yet to be finalized and a meeting on the matter at the Canadian Grand Prix on Saturday led to reports of a heated argument between Wolff, arguing over the the changes, and Horner and Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto argued against. surname.
After the meeting, Wolff labels the position of its rivals as “despicable”added that their behavior during the meeting was “pathetic”.
Horner, whose Red Bull cars have won the last six races and are one of the least affected by bounce, has long argued that bouncing is not an FIA problem. solve that to separate sorting teams.
Meanwhile, Ferrari has questioned the validity of the FIA’s recent actions, with Binotto saying the purpose of the technical directive is to clarify the rules rather than change them.
“Ferrari has presented his views on TD and Toto is campaigning to change the regulations – which is a bit ironic since his car looks pretty fast today [during Sunday’s race in Canada] Horner said. “And I think it was clearly pointed out to him that maybe his problem is within, not everyone’s problem.”
When asked if Wolff could use the Netflix camera present at the meeting to record footage for the “Drive to Survive” documentary sequel, Horner added: “I think there’s a theater element to it. singing is going on in that meeting, so maybe with Lewis’ new movie Soon, he will have the role for it. “
Part of the FIA specification allows teams to run a second time between the main body of the vehicle and the floor of the vehicle on both sides to improve floor stiffness and reduce porting. Mercedes was the only team to test a second stay during Friday’s practice, but removed it from the car ahead of qualifying and the race.
Given that the second stay-at-home directive was issued only on Thursday, both Ferrari and Red Bull question how Mercedes was able to produce the part so quickly.
“What’s particularly disappointing is a second stay because that has to be discussed in a technical forum and that tends to obviously sort out a team’s problems out, that’s the only team was here even before TD. So let’s deal with that,” Horner added.
Horner emphasized that it was more because the teams were having a hard time revising their designs rather than the FIA tweaking the rules to alleviate problems.
“The teams have some of the brightest technical talent in the world,” said Horner. “Everything will converge.
“I doubt we’ll be sitting here next year talking about fire even if the regulations stay in place. These cars are still relatively new, they remain as the additional teams grow. their car these problems.
“You can’t suddenly change the specifications midway. black flags at their disposal.”
