Red Bull boss Christian Horner is confident of a positive outcome in 2021 Formula 1 talks despite going “a bit like Brexit’.
The end of June is the current deadline for an agreement on regulation changes, as part of a new Concorde Agreement being negotiated between teams, the FIA and Liberty Media.
But with the sport’s current owners keen to introduce radical ideas like budget caps and standard parts, it has created a lot of conflict with the likes of Mercedes and Ferrari.
“A bit like Brexit, things are put on the table and then taken off the table,” Horner told Sky Sports when asked how the talks were progressing.
“We need to get something done because time is running out.”
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It is thought the deadline could be extended to October to thrash out the details and this planned overhaul comes at a key time for F1, when many are becoming disgruntled about the current Mercedes domination.
“Inevitably teams will get it right and teams will get it wrong, but hopefully the concept of what they are looking at should put more inference on the driver to be a bigger variable than he or she currently can be,” Horner told Crash.net of the 2021 vision.
“That’s what Formula 1 desperately needs.
“It needs the drivers very much to be the stars, to be modern-day chariot racers and that we have wheel-to-wheel, exciting, and to a degree, unpredictable racing, because serial winning like we have at the moment, the teams in many respects are getting too good at predicting the outcome of a weekend with the updates they introduce.
“Hats off to Mercedes, they’ve done a better job than anybody to be in the position they are, but hopefully the technical regulations will be the biggest driver to shuffle that around and change that, and hopefully introduce more variance.”
