Sky Sports activities System 1 commentator and former driver Martin Brundle has dismissed latest paddock hypothesis linking former Pink Bull group principal Christian Horner to a administration function at Ferrari, following direct contact with the Briton.
Rumours surrounding Horner’s future surfaced after he instructed The Instances that Ferrari could be the one group he would work for with out having an possession stake. However Brundle supplied some readability on the state of affairs after talking with Horner.
“Being a Ferrari driver or the Ferrari group principal is the very best and worst job in F1 all on the identical time due to the strain and the hero-zero curve is typically vertical as as to whether you might be superb or ineffective. You must navigate your manner by way of that,” Brundle defined in the course of the Sky Sports activities F1 broadcast on the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend in Malaysia.Â
“There was loads of discuss of Christian Horner this week, so I rang him, and he mentioned, ‘I used to be being well mannered and respectful about Ferrari in an interview and it took on an entire load…'”
A theoretical transfer to the Maranello outfit for Horner would have created an attention-grabbing dynamic, pairing him with seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, who joined Ferrari in 2025.
Martin Brundle
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“I imply, might you think about Lewis and Christian working collectively after 2021? That might be an attention-grabbing dynamic,” Brundle continued.
Brundle warned in opposition to frequently altering key personnel at Ferrari.
“There is no level in holding altering key personnel; you see it in soccer,” Brundle added. “The function of a group principal has additionally modified fairly dramatically. They simply want to remain calm and assist one another.”
Each Hamilton and his team-mate Charles Leclerc have publicly defended Ferrari group principal Fred Vasseur, as has Ferrari administration itself.
Ferrari at present sits second within the constructors’ championship with 378 factors behind chief Mercedes on 538 factors.
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