Originally Posted by zieler:
“I'd say the two of them are different. Ross Brawn is a very intelligent man who uses every trick in the book, and quite a few that aren't in the rulebook. Christian Horner is a smarmy weasel who relies on the brilliance of others. His job mostly consists of running after Seb and excusing his behaviour.”
That's a
bit harsh.
I've no doubt that Horner is perfectly competent as a team boss but I'd have to agree that he is
also a smarmy weasel.
Let's face it, he knew about the Merc' test
before it happened so he could have lodged an objection beforehand and got it cancelled but, instead, he waited for it to happen and, as a result, he gets to hassle Merc'
and also RBR gets the benefit of any improvements Pirelli might make as a result of the test.
Maybe a trivial point but it seems like Ferrari, at least, are being more straightforward.
Their car isn't really suffering with tyres at the moment so you can see why they might object to anything which changes the tyres.
RBR, on the other hand,
are suffering with tyre wear so you'd think they'd be happy to let Merc' help revise the tyres to prolong their life.
Course, this way he
has scored a bullseye. He's got the tyres changed how he would want
and he's got another team into trouble which will, undoubtedly, have distracted them from the championship.
Certainly clever but also very weasel-ish.