Christian Horner has defended the unified voting policy of Red Bull and AlphaTauri, saying it is at least overt due to their common ownership. Voting by F1 teams on matters that need their agreement has been in the news recently following comments made by McLaren’s CEO, Zak Brown. He called for secret ballots to take place rather than a ‘show of hands’ so that customer teams did not feel they were obliged to row in with the constructor they were affiliated to, in order to protect that relationship. Horner, the Red Bull team principal, subsequently said he thought it would be “a shame” if voting went secret as he could “only assume it’s because of pressure applied by the...
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