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Time to make the boldest cut of all?

 Regarding :-

Who slept worst last night: Christian Horner

It's all very well having a power struggle between Milton Keynes and Fuschl. But exactly how many points has Fuschl delivered? Let alone trophies and championships. No matter how expensive the suit the executive from RB GmbH is wearing he ain't gonna attract talent the way Horner can. The parallel with football breaks down because n the latter you can use money to put together a superstar manager and a superstar squad. In F1 you can do that, but you still have to build a car - and that takes time as Horner has surely pointed out from RBR's own history.

Verstappen Snr would have far less power without RBR and Horner. His son would have far less success.

Of course corporate politics is the lowest form of the art and frequenelty none of the above really matters.

So of course the buck stops with Horner, but realistically who are RBG going to put in place that is going to do better?

The only reason to get rid of Horner is if he is not prepared to stop the rot and they simply need someone braver to enforce the big change. He needs to re-align the development process. The process needs to put stuff onto the car that makes it faster in a more neutral configuration. To this end Horner needs to take the bold step of somewhat abandoning the "Verstappen plus support driver" philosophy that the team and those second drivers have openly been following since Ricciardo left. It's brought great success but has now hit the buffers and simply trying to make the car faster so Verstappen can get on the podium will not solve the problem.

In fact, is having Verstappen now more of a hindrance to the future of the team - after all whilst it's true he's still bagging all of the points does that really matter? Which championship are they going to lift and, once those are unobtainable, do any of the other championship placings really matter?

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