Horner and Wolff to move on from ‘fierce’ 2021 tension

Christian Horner and Toto Wolff want to “move on” after their relationship became “brutal” at times last season in the heat of battle.

The Red Bull and Mercedes team bosses traded barbs all season long as the two teams fought tooth-and-nail for both World Championships throughout the year, with tensions simmering on multiple occasions.

Both teams protested the legality of each other’s cars at times, Wolff infamously labelled Horner a “windbag” after complaints from the Red Bull boss, and the ongoing fight between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton left little love to be lost between the two come the end of the season.

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Now things have settled down again, the pair want to put their animosity behind them.

“It’s to be expected. It got fierce at times and brutal, but there’s a lot at stake,” Wolff told reporters in a press conference alongside Horner, quoted by Motorsport.com.

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“It’s a Formula 1 World Championship and there’s the fighting on track and the fighting off track for advantages. So that’s okay.

“But we need to move on. There’s been so much talk about Abu Dhabi that it came to a point that it’s really damaging for all of us stakeholders of F1, and we’ve closed the chapter and moved on.

“Now it’s about