Christian Horner has commented on the꧋ “pretty sharp” remarks from his rival F1 team bosses as hostilities get set to renew.

The Red Bull boss was told last season by McLaren’s Zak Brown that his staff were sending o💞ut their CVs and trying to get new jobs, in the wake of Adrian Newey’s resignation.

Mercedes’ Toto Wolff also spent parts of 2024 publicly ✃courting Max V꧂erstappen.

"You have to remember that we came off a season where we didn't just dominate, we annihilated the opposition in 2023,⛄ and won 22 of 23 races💙,” Horner told Goodwood.

“I've said it befo🍃re, but the higher you rise, the sharper the knives, and they got pretty sharp at some points during 2024.

“But when there is so much at stake, 🌳other teams will use whatever tools they have to try and destabilise what has been a hu🎀gely successful team."

Horner was also cleared after an investig✤ation into his behaviour, when a Red Bull staff member made accusations against him.

Jos Versta🌳ppen, his star driver’s father, called for H꧒orner’s exit from the team.

There was reportedly a power play within Red Bull - between the Austrian side of the business and its Thai shareholde🐈rs - with Horner in the middle.

"You have to be prett💧y thick skinned in this business, and you just💝 have to keep focused on your beliefs and commitments,” Horner said.

“We have🅰 a tremendous workforce, we have tremendous loyalty within the workforce, a🤪nd passion for what people do.

“Without 𝄹that passion, you wouldn't achieve the kind of results that we have."

Christian Horner vows to 'do things better in the future'

He added: "You're always lea✤rning in life, always applying lessons.

“The day you think you♛ know it 🐎all, or you're not learning, is the day you're going backwards. 

“It's the same in life, it's the same with the car, it's th꧙e same with everything, that you're always le🐠arning, always applying lessons that you've learned to try and do things better in the future."

Horner also had t﷽o deal with Red Bull’s dominance of F1 waning in🧸 2024.

McLaren’s car became faster, and they overt💫ook Red Bull in the constructors’ championship, eventually winning it.

Ferrari also overhauled Red Bull in the constructors’. Horner’s team were not helped by Sergio Pere🃏z’s inability to score points, and specul🐈ation ramped up about whether Red Bull would need to axe him.

Daniel Ricciardo instead lost his seat at their sister team 🔥in a dram🅰atic saga which saw Liam Lawson enter F1.

Horner has now replaced Perez with Lawson, alongside Verstappen who won his fourth F1 drivers’꧂ title🎀 in a row.

Red Bull and Verstappen areꦅ expected to come🥂 under more intense pressure for both titles in 2025.