Explosive Wolff vs Horner bust-up revealed: “Change your f****** car!”
The Drive To Survive season 5 release date is Friday, February 24, and the third episode centres on a notorious meeting between the F1 team principals at last year’s Canadian Grand Prix.
Mercedes boss Wolff was arguing that rules must be changed to protect against porpoising, after Lewis Hamilton was left injured in Baku by the vicious bouncing of his car, but Red Bull boss Horner insisted it was Wolff’s issue to solve.
"I hear lots of chit-chat about porpoising, Chinese whispers through the press, emails being sent," Wolff said to the other nine team principals. "I can tell you that all of you are playing a dangerous game.
"If a car ends in the wall because it's too stiff or it's bottoming out, you are in the **** and I'm going to come after you."
Horner reacted by saying "are we playing to the cameras?" He suggested that Wolff was only speaking up due to the presence of Netflix and insisted the conversation should happen privately.
But Wolff hit back: "I don't care. If you think this is a little game and performance, I tell you, you are very, very wrong."
Then-Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto intervened: "No, Toto. Safety is a matter of team responsibility, braking system, suspension.”
An angry Wolff responded sarcastically: "Each of you has found something to limit the problem, congratulations!"
Horner then exploded at Wolff: "Well, change your car! You've got a problem. Change your ****ing car!"
Wolff shouted back: "Then you change your car because [Sergio Perez] has been saying that the car is f*****!"
Horner: "No he hasn't."
Wolff: "Checo has been on the record."
Horner: "Let's go and get him."
Wolff: "I have it printed out!"
Horner was overheard saying as the meeting ended: "F****** joke. Unbelievable."
Haas boss Guenther Steiner said to Netflix later: "I don't know if there was an element of showmanship there."
This year, new FIA rules have been brought in to guard against porpoising by forcing all teams to run their cars higher off the ground.
