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Christian Horner feels radio messages to and from Race Control should still be publicly broadcast, saying fans “have a right to hear it”.

Correspondence between high-level team members and race director Michael Masi were played out on the international TV feed during races for the first time in 2021, giving fans added insight into the lobbying which goes on during races between the pit wall and Race Control.

Of course, the most infamous example of this came in Abu Dhabi, when Red Bull sporting director Jonathan Wheatley appealed to Masi to get the race restarted while the field was behind the Safety Car.

When the decision was made, a response came from a furious Toto Wolff, with the message of: “No Michael no, that was so not right!” being played out around the world before the final lap got underway – with the Mercedes boss recently claiming Wheatley struck up a “bromance” with the race director over the course of the season, which swayed him towards the eventual outcome of the season finale.

But because of the drama caused by the conversations in Abu Dhabi, the decision has been taken to no longer play these messages out to the global audience watching, a move which Red Bull team principal Horner believes should not have happened.

“I have pushed hard and I am responsible for the radio messages being broadcast,” Horner told