There are less than two weeks left to the start of the 2022 season, yet the World Cup that ended in December continues to be talked about. Merit, if we can say so, of the protagonists of the final duel themselves, as if to point out unshakeable positions and polarized sides. And the last words of Red Bull team principal Chris Horner are destined to rekindle controversy, also because they touch on a theme – the bullying – serious, problematic, which should not be associated with a sport with professionalism paid millions of euros.
“It was right to fire Michael Masi (former race director, ed) based on the pressure being placed on him by a rival team? This to me was and is wrong, and is tantamount to bullying. He made mistakes against us too and it was frustrating, but you have to look at the role he was in and the tools he had at his disposal. You can’t just blame Michael, that’s not fair. We went through some bad decisions of him, but his role involves very high pressures. And online he was bullied and threatened with death: this absolutely cannot be tolerated, it has nothing to do with the sportHorner said in a lengthy interview with BBC. “That’s why I spoke for Michael, because I thought that he had no support, that he was abandoned and that he was the victim of one passive-aggressive campaign. I will always stand up for someone who is bullied“.
Horner’s words partly echo the concepts used in another interview, in which he stated that in Abu Dhabi Masi had not broken – but interpreted differently – the regulation. The Federation, however, is not of the same opinion as the British: although he accepted the sporting result, he removed Masi from the position of race director, entrusting him to the couple made up of Eduardo Freitas and Niels Wittich.
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