Horner against refuelling return

Red Bull boss Christian Horner has admitted that he isn’t keen on the return of refuelling.

An F1 Strategy Group meeting has proposed a host of new rule adjustments to make the sport more popular, and the return of refuelling was the stand-out suggestion.

However, Horner doesn’t think that it will make much difference to the spectacle.

He told Sky Sports: “I tend not to agree with it. We got rid of refuelling for a reason, it didn’t make the races interesting.

“You’ve got a lot of new people in that Strategy Group who haven’t been around all that long. If you cast your mind back to races where there was refuelling, they weren’t that exciting – you just timed the pitstop, you either went shorter or longer [in the stint], and that dictated your strategy.

“So I think that’s still open to debate.”

Refuelling hasn’t been seen since 2009, when it was outlawed for cost and safety reasons.

Related topics