McLaren wanted Christian Horner

McLaren wanted Christian Horner. The management of the Woking team would have tried to snatch its Team Principal from Red Bull by advancing a challenging offer, as also reported by my colleague Ralf Bach, correspondent for Bild and TZ Muenchen. According to what the journalist stated, McLaren's goal was to snatch Horner from Red Bull to give him the keys to Woking and place him in the role today occupied by Eric Boullier.

The mastermind of what could have turned out to be a coup was that of Ron Dennis who, according to Bach, only once he had received a firm no from the Englishman would he have fallen back on the Frenchman from Lotus: "Horner has a contract long-term with us, so it is in no way conceivable that he could change his shirt,” commented Helmut Marko when pressed on the issue. And the response to the indiscretions, albeit concise, also came from Woking: "This rumor is totally baseless“, confided a spokesperson.

Eleonora Ottonello