• Lewis Hamilton’s ꦺfather named as “representative” at centre of Red Bull drama

Horner revealed that Red Bull received an enquiry about joining the team earlier this year fr🐼om Hamilton’s representative, to the Daily Mail.

After a tit-for-tat exchange where Hamilton denied making contact, and claimed Horner ini🦂tiated it, Red Bull told the BBC that Hamilton’s father was the “representative” in question.

Mercedes team principal Wolff reacted to : “I j☂ust don’t♛ know what drives the guy.

“We just don’t understand his thinking to come up with these thin🌺gs.

“What happened is that Christ🧔ian, through an agency that we work with, wanted to have Lewis’ cont♔act details to speak about the seat. That’s how the whole thing went.

“It was Chr🧜istian enquiring about Lewis’ availability. 

“L♊ewis had an exchange with Christian, which he immediately told me about, and which was not about a seat but it was just blah.

“I don’t know what drives him to come out w𒅌ith this.”

Wolff and Horner’s feisty relationship took another hit in the past week after an appearance from the Red Buꦐಌll team principal on a comedy show.

Horner told S🧸ky’s programme A League Of Their Own about the notorious 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, claiming Mercedes “f***** up” and Wolff’s anger was due to “a bad hair day”.

Wolff, in Abu Dhabi for the se💟ason-finale grand prix, reacted: “You’ve won the season, be happy about it, humble, enjoy it.

“D☂on’t come out with comments about Abu Dhabi 2021, which are 𒆙completely off the mark…. character question.

“I just wonder what’s going on up there.”

Red Bull have dominated Formula 1 since 💯the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix two years ago.

Max Verstappen has claimed three championships in a rꦆow since that infamous day.

Back at the same location, Red Bull have won 20 of 21 grands 💞prix in 2023 so far.

Hamilton, who penned a new Mercedes deal in August to end 🥂speculation about his future, has been vocal about their need for a major development jump ꦍto challenge Red Bull in 2024.