{"id":134029,"date":"2024-12-06T16:26:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T09:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134029"},"modified":"2024-12-06T16:26:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T09:26:50","slug":"wolff-slams-yapping-little-terrier-horner-amid-verstappen-russell-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134029","title":{"rendered":"Wolff slams &#8216;yapping little terrier&#8217; Horner amid Verstappen-Russell row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"therace-post-content\">\n<p>The explosive row between Max Verstappen and George Russell extended to their team bosses and raised echoes of the 2021 Red Bull vs Mercedes championship spats as Toto Wolff entered the argument and referred to Christian Horner as a \u201cyapping little terrier\u201d who\u2019d been too \u201cweak\u201d to properly control Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours after Russell slammed Verstappen to selected media outlets including The Race, he held a wider press session in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix paddock and was pointedly joined for it by his Mercedes team principal Wolff.<\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-begin: html--><\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-end: html--><\/p>\n<p>When both Russell and Wolff were asked if they felt Verstappen had been \u201cenabled\u201d by people not \u201cdealing with him\u201d, Wolff took his chance to hit out at Horner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a team principal it&#8217;s important to be a sparring partner for your drivers,\u201d Wolff began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that means explaining that things can be more nuanced. Statements that are absolute, thinking that everything is either 100% right or 100% wrong, is just something I think you need to explain.<\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-begin: html--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=TAMC1221605558\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--kg-card-end: html--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink about nuance &#8211; you need to allow for something to be 51-49, you need to allow for it to be 70-30. So there is always another side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd maybe when you look at it that way and you explain it to the drivers and to your team you come to the conclusion that there is truth on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don&#8217;t do that, you&#8217;re falling short of your role. It&#8217;s just weak.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/content\/images\/2024\/12\/IMG_1497.JPG\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2024\/12\/IMG_1497.JPG 600w, https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/content\/images\/size\/w1000\/2024\/12\/IMG_1497.JPG 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/content\/images\/size\/w1600\/2024\/12\/IMG_1497.JPG 1600w, https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/content\/images\/size\/w2400\/2024\/12\/IMG_1497.JPG 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 720px) 720px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>And he then stopped an attempt to move the question towards Russell with \u201cwait, one second. I&#8217;m not finished actually\u201d and admitted that he \u201clost it\u201d when he heard that Horner had suggested Russell\u2019s \u201chysterics\u201d in front of the stewards had led to Verstappen\u2019s Qatar GP qualifying penalty and that Russell had been generally \u201chysterical\u201d over the Lusail weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy does he feel entitled to comment about my driver?\u201d said Wolff. \u201cIf you&#8217;re thinking about it and spent 90 seconds to think about it\u2026yapping little terrier. Always something to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The notorious 2021 championship fight between Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton also featured ample bad blood and rowing between Wolff and Horner.<\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-begin: html--><\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-end: html--><\/p>\n<p>Asked why he felt the need to join Russell\u2019s media session, Wolff said it was because he felt Horner had needlessly crossed a line with the language he used in criticising Russell last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ll tell you clearly: there is a thing between drivers, and this is George and Max, and I don&#8217;t want to get involved in that,\u201d said Wolff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if the other team principal calls George hysterical, this is where he crosses a line for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, his forte for sure is not intellectual psychoanalysis. But that&#8217;s quite a word.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow dare you comment on the state of mind of my driver?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/content\/images\/2024\/12\/XPB_1322717_HiRes.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2024\/12\/XPB_1322717_HiRes.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/content\/images\/size\/w1000\/2024\/12\/XPB_1322717_HiRes.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/content\/images\/size\/w1600\/2024\/12\/XPB_1322717_HiRes.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/content\/images\/size\/w2400\/2024\/12\/XPB_1322717_HiRes.jpg 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 720px) 720px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Horner\u2019s response is likely to come on Friday when he is in the line-up for the FIA team principals\u2019 press conference.<\/p>\n<p>There was a further echo to 2021 in Russell\u2019s general media session when he suggested the anger towards race director Michael Masi might\u2019ve been worse still had it been Verstappen, not Hamilton, who came out on the wrong side of his late-race restart call that set up the championship-deciding pass.<\/p>\n<p>That accusation came when Russell got his turn to answer the question about whether those around Verstappen had \u201cenabled\u201d him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he&#8217;s been enabled because nobody&#8217;s stood up to him,\u201d said Russell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLewis stood up to him in 2021 and Lewis lost that championship unfairly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould you imagine the roles being reversed and Max losing that championship in the manner that Lewis lost that championship? Masi would be fearing for his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When that comment and Wolff\u2019s presence at Russell\u2019s press session were mentioned to Verstappen in a Dutch media briefing shortly afterwards, he is understood to have dismissed the Masi remark as something not worth reacting to and suggested he didn\u2019t \u201cneed the support\u201d of a team boss in such situations.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/formula-1\/yapping-little-terrier-wolff-slams-horner-verstappen-russell-f1-row\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The explosive row between Max Verstappen and George Russell extended to their team bosses and raised echoes of the 2021 Red Bull vs Mercedes championship spats as Toto Wolff entered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134029\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}