Red Bull and Mercedes are currently engaged in a very close battle for the championship. Mercedes are the team that is chasing and they have been looking at ways to close the gap to Red Bull both on and off track. One area where they have focused a lot on is the rear wing found on the Red Bull cars as well as a few others. Mercedes feel that these wings flex too much and the teams using them gain a huge advantage on the straights. They want the FIA to take immediate action and have even implied that they will launch a formal protest if something is not done soon enough. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has now explained to Sky Sports why Wolff should be careful about this as it could backfire on them as well

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Careful What You Wish For – Horner Tells Wolff

Horner began by reiterating that their rear wing is legal

“There has obviously been a lot of noise that Mercedes have been driving about the rear wing, and the bottom line is that if the car complies with the rules, it passes the test. It’s legal”

He then pointed out how Mercedes’ rear wings flexed more than Red Bull’s around Baku and added that he’d be more interested in Mercedes’ front wings

“If anything, around here, [theirs] looks a bit worse than ours. [But] I’d be more interested to see the front of the cars than the rear of the cars.”

He then explained why scrutiny should be done on both ends of the car if they go down this path

“A lot of noise has been made about the rear wing, and a lot of changes had to be made. If you keep talking about one end of the car, you have to look at the other end as well”

He then elaborated on why Wolff could end up regretting going after the rear wings

“You can’t look at one part in isolation and say that set of rules only applies to that element on that car. You have to look at all areas. Sometimes, you have to be a little bit careful what you wish for”

Horner signed off by giving some advice to Toto

“I think if I was Toto with the front wing he’s got on his car, I’d keep my mouth shut”


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McLaren’s Lando Norris thinks that they “can be confident and optimistic that [they] can go well”

He doesn’t think they’ll “be anything extraordinary”

He added that they've “shown over the first five races that [they] have a good car on all the tracks”

But he doesn’t think they can say they’ll “be quicker than Mercedes or Red Bull but [they’ll keep their] heads down and try and see what [they] can do”

AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda has revealed that when he “crashed in FP2 [in Monaco, which] was not a good thing Red Bull was not happy”

And he was “talking to Red Bull, AlphaTauri, about having a little bit of a big change as the last three, four races, [he has’t] had a good race”

“So to change something, you need a big difference. So, they decide[d] to move [him] to Italy”

This is so that he can “have more chats with engineers also, go to the factory and have more opportunity to talk about the car”

His teammate Pierre Gasly does not “want to be cautious [around Baku; They] want to be aggressive and try to squeeze everything out of the car”

He further added that “If [they] can improve on [Monaco] once more, that would be amazing, but let’s not get too excited”

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Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton feels that “there’s areas where [he] should just be quicker, but there’s no more grip [in Baku]”

His teammate Valtteri Bottas concurred that “the car is maybe a bit unpredictable, but it just feels like its lacking grip and sliding around”

Alfa Romeo’s Antonio Giovinazzi feels that “the only thing [he] can do now is do a good job, drive fast and then see what will happen next year”

He added that he would “really like to stay here also next year, it’s the only team [he has stayed with] for the third season”

He knows “the people really well [and has a] good relationship with the people inside”

Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel has suggested that in Baku “the section around the old town that is very twisty [is] where you can make or lose a lot of time”

That section in his opinion “will ultimately be the decisive factor”


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