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Christian Horner says he has “a huge amount of respect” for everything that Toto Wolff has “done and achieved”, but he likes seeing his “counterpart losing it”.
It’s no secret that since the tight title battle of 2021, Toto Wolff and Christian Horner have had a highly contentious relationship.
During his appearance of Sky’s ‘Secrets of Success’ podcast, Horner explained he has a lot of respect for his competitor, however, he likes to see Toto ‘lose it’.
“I have a huge amount of respect for everything that he’s done and achieved, but we’re competitors,” Horner said.
“I’ve never been a believer that you can be the best mate with your competitor. I think it’s dishonest.
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“I want everybody in my team to see that whoever we’re racing against is the competition. That’s who we’re there to compete with.
“Any sport is a mind game and when you see your counterpart losing it and smashing a set of headphones out you think, ‘okay, you’re feeling the pressure’, and if he’s feeling the pressure, everybody else around him is feeling the pressure because pressure permeates from the top.
“I would never smash a set of headphones up. You know, everybody’s different. Internally I’d have felt and mentally I would have smashed those headphones just as hard as him, but I just wouldn’t have done it physically.
“I think it’s just everybody is different,” Horner concluded.
