Horner and Mercedes boss Wolff regularly spared off-track amid last year’s intense, season-long title battle between 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton, culminating with the controversial 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. 

Wolff was seen smashing up a pair of headphones in Saudi Arabia and pointing at the camera in Brazil to vent his fr🅰ustration as the championship neared its dramatic clima⛄x. 

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Speaking on , Horner said Wolff’s behaviour was an example of bad management and showed that Red Bull go🧸t under his skin. 

“The Brits are quite good at that, keeping a stiff-upper lip, head down and get on with it,” Horner said ༒when asked how he conꦆtrols his passion to stop his emotions boiling over. 

"For me, last year’s world championship was very much about that. It was a titanic battle, not just between the two drivers on track but the two t꧑eams off track. 

“The person you are gauging yourself [against] 𓄧and are pitched against as team principal is your opposite number. It’s a mental game as much as it’s a physical activity as well. 

“It was the first time that team, in a seveღn ꧋or eight-year period, had come under any form of pressure. I think that’s when you see people’s true personalities and what they’ve really got when they are under pressure. 

“When you see your counterpart smashing up headphones and pointing and ranting at cameras, you know you’ve got to them.&n꧒bsp;

“And you know that if they are venting in such a way, and feeling that pressure, that the people below them are going to ♔be off-loaded onto as well - that they are going to be on the receiving end of that. In my experience, that causes people to tighten up. 

“I remember before the race in Abu Dhabi, getting all the guys together and saying: ‘look, whatever happens today is going to happen. All we can do is do the best that we can do today and the💮 most important thing is to be proud of what you’ve achieved to get to this position that we’re fighting for this world championship, that we’ve taken it all the way to the wire, and most of all, enjoy it. Enjoy this experience. Whatever the outcome is going to be, we don’t know but let’s go in there w🐬ith an approach of give it everything, enjoy it and embrace it’. 

“And in the end, it paid off. I think that asꦕ a leader, how you conduct yourself permeates throughout a business. So if you’re feeling the tension and passing that on, then for me, that’s not a healthy🍬 way to lead a team by fear. 

"You want it to be inclusive, you want it to be open, you want people to feel that they’ve got a voice and th⛎at that voice will be heard, rather than being afraid to speak up for fear of getting their head taken off.”

Red Bull had 'more desire' to win 

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Horner stressed he was always confident Red Bull would triumph against Mercedes last season due to a combination of Verstappen’sꦉ performances and his team having “more desire” to win. 

“Performance is always cyclical,” Horner explained.&nbs♑p;

“Mercedes went through a long winning spree, certainly longer than we did, and at some point tha𝓡t was always going to come to and end, whether it’s through complacency or whatever causes that. And I wanted to make sure that we were the team on the upward graph to capitalise on any sign of weakness. 

“There are several components; one of course is the driver and the driver played a key role in that Max Verstappen, emerging as this as this exciting, determined character. You will not meet a more determined personality or driver with more commitment a𒀰nd passion than Max. 

“Aꦰnd the team just having this inner-belief and pushing all of the boundaries, operating at a level tha🐠t was taking us out of our comfort zone. Whether that be record-breaking pit stops, aggressive strategies, taking calculated risks, with very much an attitude of ‘we’ve got nothing to lose’. 

“In the end I think it came down to desire - that the𝐆re was more desire and the way we applied ourselves as a team, under massive pressure, and we dealt with that pressure in a very together manner.”