Steiner contradicts Horner: 'That's just good management'

Christian Horner was disappointed after the Grands Prix of Great Britain and Hungary. By the heavy crash of Max Verstappen in Silverstone the Austrian racing team suffered more than one million euro worth of damage.

It means Red Bull will have to spend a lot of money repairing the car, at the expense of the team's planned spending. The team boss felt this was unjustified, as it was Mercedes who actually caused the damage. Horner, therefore, pleaded for a revision of the cost cap.

Guenther Steiner, however, disagrees with Horner. "I think we need to live with it," the Honda team boss stated in conversation with Crash.net. "We need to be flexible enough, that’s just good management. Because then all of a sudden we have less crashes, do we bring the budget cap down again? I think it’s part of racing and will be part of how much risk you take and what you do."

Due to a mistake by Kimi Räikkönen, Nikita Mazepin also had damage to his car in Hungary. "I think it’s part of racing, crashes. You cannot adjust the budget or the regulation, going off how many crashes you’ve got. For me, no change is needed on this one."