Interview with Horner
Interview with Horner
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Great Dane

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2,851 posts

187 months

TheDeuce

30,692 posts

87 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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The guardian + Horner..

No thanks.

Jasandjules

71,835 posts

250 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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Without reading is it whine, whinge Lewis, whine moan Mercedes, Max is super....??

AlexIT

1,679 posts

159 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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Jasandjules said:
Without reading is it whine, whinge Lewis, whine moan Mercedes, Max is super....??
Nope, not really... nothing really upsetting or not known, basically you're not missing anything in skipping it.

Only thing I didn't know is that Horner is married do Gerry Halliwell, I must change my reading habits

number2

4,850 posts

208 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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Or watching habits - she spends a good amount of time in the pitlane with Horner, and in the Netflix series wink.

AlexIT

1,679 posts

159 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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number2 said:
Or watching habits - she spends a good amount of time in the pitlane with Horner, and in the Netflix series wink.
You mean I should stop focusing on cars' details and have a broader situational awareness?

DaveZed

77 posts

95 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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AlexIT said:
Only thing I didn't know is that Horner is married do Gerry Halliwell, I must change my reading habits
Hence the quips about him being Grumpy Spice, or something along those lines.

CanAm

12,612 posts

293 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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AlexIT said:
You mean I should stop focusing on cars' details and have a broader situational awareness?
I’m impressed that you concentrate on the important things and not let your concentration be diverted by the pit popsies (as they were known in the olden days).

HTP99

24,598 posts

161 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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DaveZed said:
AlexIT said:
Only thing I didn't know is that Horner is married do Gerry Halliwell, I must change my reading habits
Hence the quips about him being Grumpy Spice, or something along those lines.
Whinger Spice I believe.

Sandpit Steve

13,719 posts

95 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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HTP99 said:
DaveZed said:
AlexIT said:
Only thing I didn't know is that Horner is married do Gerry Halliwell, I must change my reading habits
Hence the quips about him being Grumpy Spice, or something along those lines.
Whinger Spice I believe.
Salty Spice on one of the race threads, perhaps Silverstone.

lauda

4,122 posts

228 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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I thought this was an interesting comment from Horner:

“I have no issue with Toto but we are very different people. I tend to be quite straight and quite direct, that’s the way I’ve always operated. He operates in a different way but I have a lot of respect for what he’s done.”

If by ‘straight and direct’ he means ‘full of bullst’, I’d be inclined to agree. However it’s Wolff that I would consider the far more straightforward and honest of the two. I see Wolff in the same mould as Lauda, someone who is very good at taking the emotion out of a situation and generally being pretty brutally honest, both about his team and drivers and their competitors.

85Carrera

3,503 posts

258 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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lauda said:
I thought this was an interesting comment from Horner:

“I have no issue with Toto but we are very different people. I tend to be quite straight and quite direct, that’s the way I’ve always operated. He operates in a different way but I have a lot of respect for what he’s done.”

If by ‘straight and direct’ he means ‘full of bullst’, I’d be inclined to agree. However it’s Wolff that I would consider the far more straightforward and honest of the two. I see Wolff in the same mould as Lauda, someone who is very good at taking the emotion out of a situation and generally being pretty brutally honest, both about his team and drivers and their competitors.
Indeed I thought it very strange that Horner was claiming qualities that he palpably lacks

TheDeuce

30,692 posts

87 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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Sandpit Steve said:
HTP99 said:
DaveZed said:
AlexIT said:
Only thing I didn't know is that Horner is married do Gerry Halliwell, I must change my reading habits
Hence the quips about him being Grumpy Spice, or something along those lines.
Whinger Spice I believe.
Salty Spice on one of the race threads, perhaps Silverstone.
Salty Spice, Whingey Spice, Grumpy, Petulant, Smug, Dramatic Spice...

Hypocritical Spice... smile

AlexIT

1,679 posts

159 months

Thursday 21st October 2021
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CanAm said:
AlexIT said:
You mean I should stop focusing on cars' details and have a broader situational awareness?
I’m impressed that you concentrate on the important things and not let your concentration be diverted by the pit popsies (as they were known in the olden days).
Bad signs of getting older? biggrin (or frown indeed)

Jasandjules

71,835 posts

250 months

Thursday 21st October 2021
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lauda said:
I thought this was an interesting comment from Horner:

I tend to be quite straight and quite direct, that’s the way I’ve always operated. He operates in a different way but I have a lot of respect for what he’s done.”
Surely he is not that deluded?


number2

4,850 posts

208 months

Thursday 21st October 2021
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Jasandjules said:
lauda said:
I thought this was an interesting comment from Horner:

I tend to be quite straight and quite direct, that’s the way I’ve always operated. He operates in a different way but I have a lot of respect for what he’s done.”
Surely he is not that deluded?
He's perhaps conflating 'direct' with 'rude and obnoxious'?

He has had his moments but I've no strong feelings against him. However I can see how some might!

MustangGT

13,628 posts

301 months

Thursday 21st October 2021
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Horner is straight and direct, the problem is it is rarely correct.

SturdyHSV

10,327 posts

188 months

Thursday 21st October 2021
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Jasandjules said:
lauda said:
I thought this was an interesting comment from Horner:

I tend to be quite straight and quite direct, that’s the way I’ve always operated. He operates in a different way but I have a lot of respect for what he’s done.”
Surely he is not that deluded?
It's possible he's speaking about his actual personal and (internal) professional manner as opposed to the demeanour created by his press responsibilities, and feasibly the same with Toto.

I imagine he'll have had plenty of insight in to how Toto is away from the cameras thanks to all the Mercedes bods Red Bull have recruited hehe

It's worth bearing in mind we don't actually know these people, we know what their press team and professionalism allows us to know, and in reality, little more than that.

Doesn't make it any less fun to speculate though of course smile

Great Dane

Original Poster:

2,851 posts

187 months

Friday 22nd October 2021
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CanAm said:
I’m impressed that you concentrate on the important things and not let your concentration be diverted by the pit popsies (as they were known in the olden days).
we called them 'screw drivers'

HustleRussell

26,000 posts

181 months

Friday 22nd October 2021
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lauda said:
I thought this was an interesting comment from Horner:

“I have no issue with Toto but we are very different people. I tend to be quite straight and quite direct, that’s the way I’ve always operated. He operates in a different way but I have a lot of respect for what he’s done.”
guy's delusional

Sandpit Steve said:
Salty Spice on one of the race threads, perhaps Silverstone.
That is my favourite one.