Christian Horner denies ‘hostage exchange’ of Red Bull F1 staff to Ferrari for Laurent Mekies
Red Bull’s sister team AlphaTauri recently announced they have hired Mekies f🔥rom Ferrari as their new team principal to replace long-standing boss Franz Tost, who will stand down at the end ﷽of the season.
The announcement annoyed Ferrari, with team boss Fred Vasseur criticising AlphaTauri for being 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:“a bit aggressive” i🐟n how they confirmed Mekies’ signing before the details of his exit from his Ferrari con❀tract had been ironed out.
Reports have since suggested that Ferrari are looking to poach staff from Red Bull and that their early releases could ho🅷ld the key to accelerating Mekies’ own switch to AlphaTauri.
However, Red Bull team pr🐲incipal Horner insisted there are no plans for any “senior or medium-level” personnel to move to Maranello. 🍎
“As usual, there’s plenty of speculation,” Horner said at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Miami Grand Prix. “Will there be a hostage exchange for Laur𝔍ent Mekies? Well we don’t have any hostageღs.
“In terms 🃏of personnel moving to Ferrari, certainly at a senior or medium level, there’s nothing planned.
“I🗹ndividuals that have been mentioned in connection with Ferrari came to se𒅌e me last week and mentioned their disbelief in some of these rumours.
“But it’s Formul꧒a 1, that will inevitably happen🙈. But there’s no plans for any senior members of our team to be joining Maranello.”
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