Christian Horner’s war of ꧅words with Toto Wolff has intensified after the Red Bull boss claimed they have poached 200 employees for their engine department.

Since their teams went head-to-head for the 2021 F1 world championship, Horner and Wolff 🌺have been arch rivals, often exchanging words in the media.

Despite their contrasting on-track fortunes, their rivalry has been r🍌enewed.

Wolff has been public in his admiration for Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen - and the prospect of potentia🌳lly signing him for 2025.

This has irked Horner, with the 51🌞-year-old biting back after the race in China.

Things have heated up between the two team bo🦋sses, particularly as McLaren CEO Zak Brown sugges🤪ted in Miami that Red Bull are set to lose even more staff following Adrian Newey’s departure.

Horner has taken another 🐼swipe at Wolff and Mercedes with a remarkable claim that his team has poached 200 staff from Brixworth for Red Bull Powertrains - their new engine proj🔯ect for 2026.

"The two candidates inv༒olved talk a lot. I'm not going to get sucked in for a tit for tat. I would be more focused on Toto's own is♔sues that he has. I don't have any concern with the strength and depth [of Red Bull]," he said.

"Of course there is always going to be movement between teams. I don't know how many🐽 people we have employed by McLaren this year? Mercedes, we have taken 220 people. 2♋20 out of HPP into Red Bull powertrains.

"So when we are talking about losing people, I ꦦwould be more worried than about the 220 people, than one ༺or two CVs."

Red Bull could lose another of their star asse♔ts with sporting director Jonathan W♌heatley reportedly considering his future.

Wheatley has hopes to become an F1 team principal, and with Horner firm in his position, he might have to look el🐎sewhere.

Addressing the Wheatley rumours, Horner added: "There are rumours about everybody. 🐻Contracts between individuals and their terms and conditions is not somet🐓hing that we really talk through [with] the public."