“Title race is intense but he’s been quite close to the line”– Christian Horner apologizes for inappropriate behaviour which almost brought wrath of stewards

Tanish Chachra | 22/11/2021
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Christian Horner apologizes for his inappropriate comments ahead of the start of the race when Max Verstappen received a penalty.

Christian Horner was agitated with Max Verstappen receiving a five-place grid penalty and stormed words against the stewards and marshals for the alleged confusion.

After the race, the FIA taking an action over recent words by Horner summoned him and after a while warned him for breaching the International Sporting Code and damaged the reputation of the FIA and its officials.

The Red Bull tram principal as a part of the verdict was offered to take part in a stewards’ programme early next year. That offer was accepted. Moreover, Horner apologized for his words while talking to SkySports.

“Some comments were made, I think, in our interview earlier where you asked me about the marshalling and…. I’d like to make it clear that marshals do a wonderful, wonderful job,” he told Sky.

“They are volunteers, and they do a great job. And my frustration in what I voiced earlier wasn’t at marshals, it was at a circumstance. So if any offence was taken by any individual, then obviously I apologise for that. But it’s still frustrating to end up with the situation that we had.”

Also read: Lewis Hamilton reacts to Max Verstappen getting five-place grid penalty

Christian Horner clarifies about his frustration

Horner then revealed that while talking to stewards he tried to explain that his frustration was with yellow flags and not with a lone meember.

“I spoke with the FIA. I apologised if any offence in any way was created, because it wasn’t the intention,” he said. “My frustration wasn’t with an individual marshal.”

“It was with a situation where one car had driven [through], there was no yellow. One car gets a single yellow, one car gets a double yellow. So it’s the inconsistency across that.”

“We can learn from that. As a sport we can learn from that, but all the marshals out there: we need you, we think you do a wonderful job. And apologies if any offence was interpreted.”

Also read: Lando Norris feels FIA’s treatment of Brazil GP incident between Verstappen and Hamilton is unfair compared to his own past similar incident

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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