Christian Horner and Toto Wolff endured an intense head-to-head battle in 2021 Formula One season as Red Bull and Mercedes fought to become constructors’ champions. It was a battle in which Wolff came out on top after Mercedes’ comfortable victory.
Yet despite this, the decision by the FIA to allow unlap cars through and give Max Verstappen a chance to win the Drivers’ Championship ahead of Lewis Hamilton in Abu Dhabi left Wolff infuriated.
Verstappen won the championship by just eight points after the pair went into the final race neck-and-neck on points.
And the Mercedes chief has spoken of how the Dutchman offered him a ‘thank you’ for the strong participation the two teams showed in the battle for the driver’s and constructors’ titles.
The Austrian, 49, was left livid after a controversial decision by FIA director Michael Masi left Hamilton in the lurch with just one lap to go in Abu Dhabi.
Verstappen consequently got round Hamilton on the final lap of the season to take his first ever Drivers’ Championship crown.
Relations between both sets of bosses had reached boiling point,…
