Formula 1 pundit Karun Chandhok has labelled Red Bull team principal Christian Horner a “master politician” for his ability to change narratives to suit his🏅 interests.

With Red Bull struggling to match pacesetter McLaren in the early part of the 2025 season, Hꩵorner has blamed a correlation issue between the wind tunnel and the track for the shortcomings of the RB21.

It🔯 follows Horner's previous description of the team💫’s existing wind tunnel in Bedford as a “Cold War relic” to highlight its outdated nature compared to the aero-testing facilities of other teams.

However, Chandho🦩k was unimpressed with Horner’s 💙argument, saying the Briton tends to reframe the conversation.

His own research suggests tha♐t if a correlation issue does exist at Red Bull, then the wind tunnel itself is not the root cause of the problem.

“Every time I listen to Christian Hꦍorner's ‘our wind tunnel is a relic of the cold war’ thing….it's just PR spin,” the former F1 driver said on the .

“He is such a master politician. Whenꦛ we did the cost cap last year [he showed he was a] master of deflection, he just pivoted to some other༺ story.

“🐟I don't see Racing ෴Bulls complaining about correlation for the wind tunnel [and] they use the same wind tunnel.

“I asked a couple of people at Racing Bulls, do you struggle with 👍correlation [and there🌌 were like] 'nope'.

“So it comes back to a Red Bull Racing issue. Sure, there is a correlation between their design ꦇin the factory and the wind tunnel, but that is a Red Bull issue rathe💯r than a ‘this is our relic of the Cold War where we design so many things.”

After 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen was hit with a five-second time penalty for going off track and gaining an advantage at the start of the Saudi Arabian GP, Horner brought printed imageꦏs of 𓆏the incident to his media scrum to defend the Dutchman's actions.

The supposed photographic evidence showed polesitter Verstappen running ahead of McLaren rival 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri as they approached the opening chicane.

Chandhok saw that attempt at infl🦩uencing the media as very much in line wit𝔍h his character as a politician.

“You have to give Christian credit, he𒉰 is very goo๊d at at least trying to spin it.

“When you arrived at the post-race thing with all of his printouts ready to go to argue the Max Verstappen thing. I'm sure it’s not an accident that on ꧃Instagram he posted a picture from high above showing Max ahead of Oscar.

“The fact that he has come off the brakes and is heading straight to the run-off areꦍa at a higher speed [is irrelevant], let's ignore that bit.”

Chandhok added:𒈔 “He manages to spin the narrative and get enough people to believe it that it becomes fact - and I give him credit for it.

“If you look at the last 24 months and the number of🃏 PR stories that they had to manage, he has weathered the storm and he h♌as come out of it.”

Red Bull is building a new wind tunnel at its campu⛎s in Milton Keynes that is expected to become operational next year.