Christian Horner has defended Red Bull and AlphaTauri’s uniform electoral policy, saying that it is at least obvious due to their common property.
F1 teams’ voting on matters that require their approval was recently revealed on the news after McLaren CEO Zak Brown made comments.
He called for secret votes and no show of hands so that customer teams would not feel obliged to reach out to the designer they were affiliated with to protect this relationship.
Horner, the Red Bull team principal, later said he thought it would be “a shame” for the vote to go secret, as he “could only assume that this was due to pressure from the US government.” [power unit] Supplier”.
Instead, Horner prefers the openness of the current system, although Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has pointed out that Red Bull and their ‘sister’ outfit AlphaTauri vote in the same way without exception – and insisted that the reigning world champions “never tried to a team to influence “.
But Horner offered an overt explanation while also implying that puppet shows take place when votes are cast at meetings of the F1 commission.
“I find it quite amusing because so often we see that you look down the line to see how an engine supplier votes and then you put your hands up accordingly. It’s always like they’re on a string, ”Horner told RacingNews365.
“AlphaTauri and Red Bull have 100% the same ownership. These are the only two teams in F1 to own this. Of course we will vote in a joint way that will benefit the group as we are subsidiaries of the group. So if we expected anything else, that would be … yes, that won’t happen. “
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Wolff agrees with Brown in favor of secret ballots after describing Ferrari-Haas affiliation as similar to the Red Bull / AlphaTauri union.
“In terms of the secret voting, it is very easy,” said the Mercedes F1 co-owner and team principal.
“You have seen Toro Rosso in the past [now AlphaTauri] voted like Red Bull, probably without exceptions, and Haas went the Ferrari way. In our case, we never tried to influence a team.
“Obviously things were discussed when it was a general topic, like with the engine. It is clear that the teams vote with each other and neither team would vote against their own interests regarding the chassis regulations.
“So the secret ballot idea is a good one. I doubt Franz [Tost, AlphaTauri boss] will not take any instructions and neither will Günther [Steiner, Haas boss] Not taking instructions. But the attempt is obviously a good one.
“No team should really be influenced by a partner or supplier.”
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