Red Bull Team Principal Christian Horner has told F1’s cash-strapped struggling teams "to solve their problems 'behind closed doors' and stop damaging the reputation of their sport," according to NEWS CORP. AUSTRALIA.
Horner "led calls for the recent public threats of boycotts and strikes to end with a swift resolution to concentrate on delivering a great show and close racing at this weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix." He said that "any kind of protest by the three teams in trouble -- Force India, Lotus and Sauber -- would achieve nothing and suggested that even talking about the idea was hurting F1’s reputation." Horner: "They are here to compete. Force India is trying to beat McLaren. If they are sitting in the garage, they are not going to be going anywhere" (NEWS CORP. AUSTRALIA, 11/7). The BBC wrote Horner said that "any protests should be done in private." Horner: "What F1 has done during the last couple of weeks, with the public slanging matches that have gone on, is not good for the sport. Doing it publicly is the wrong way to do it" (BBC, 11/6).
