Still smarting from Renault's recruitment of the FIA's technical chief Marcin Budkowski, it was anticipated that today's press conference, which featured Maurizio Arrivabene, Toto Wolff and Christian Horner, would witness an amount of hostility from the Red Bull boss over Ferrari's poaching of the sport's governing body's deputy race director and safety director, Laurent Mekies. Earlier in the week Horner and McLaren's Eric Boullier accused Ferrari of breaking a gentleman's agreement in signing the Frenchman, especially in terms of the amount of gardening leave he would need to serve before taking up his new (unspecified) role. Following the recruitment of Budkowski, it is claimed that at...
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