Christian Horner’s advice for Toto Wolff amid Mercedes' barren run: ‘As a leader you have to…’

Since their titanic head-to-head for the 2021 world championships, Mercedes and Red Bull have had contrasting fortunꦓes.
Mercedes hღave won just one race 🌱since the start of 2022, while in the same period Red Bull have won 38.
Red Bull endured a similar barren run themselves - between 2014 and 2020 - after four consecutive triumphs with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sebastian Vettel.
Red Bull often languished well behind Mercedes, who remained unbeaten in both championshipౠs until 2021.
“It’s a massive challenge,” Horner said on the Sky F1 podcast. “He came into the s♏port on the back of a winniဣng team and enjoyed a huge period of success, serial success for seven or eight years and then suddenly, it’s a big adjustment to not be going to grands prix…and I think Mercedes have won one race in the last two seasons.
“And that will hurt and people start questioning things in the organisation, heads drop and as a leader, you have to motivate them, you have to pick them up. It’s a totally different challenge, being at the top of the field striving🌜 to get back there. I think that it’s making sure th🌟at people believe in themselves and trying to instil confidence.”

Even though Red Bull weren’t able to challenge Mercဣedes regularly during their uncompetitive seasons, 2015 was the only year they went winless, often coming out on top in♔ Monaco or Mexico where their engine disadvantage didn't matter as much.
“And itꦜ’s inevitable that when you’ve been winning for a long period of time that, when suddenly you’re not winning, then that’s when fingers start getting pointed and the team gets truly challenged during that period,” he ♑added. “And that’s where I’m particularly proud of Red Bull.
“𝔉During the period that we weren’t able to be in a winning position, which was largely out of our control, we were still winning races in every single year, two or three races. Bar 2015, we won a minimum of two or three races every year. At the places that we could do so, where the engine disadvantage was nullified.”

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