Sky F1 pundit Naomi Schiff believes neither Christian Horner nor Lewis Hamilton are telling the full truth over apparent Red Bull discussions involving the pair.
Ahead of the F1 2023 season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner, in a Daily Mail interview, claimed that an approach had been made from the Lewis Hamilton camp regarding a potential switch from Mercedes to Red Bull.
Hamilton denied that this was the case and that Horner was just “stirring”, adding that when he switched on his old phone, a message from Horner was among the flurry, asking for a “catch-up” at the end of the season.
Horner has since said that Hamilton’s father Anthony was the person who got in touch, though Schiff is certain that neither side of this tale is telling the truth.
“What I would love to know and see is the truth,” she said. “I feel as flat as you make a pancake, there’s always going to be two sides.
“But one thing is they’re clearly both covering something up here. I don’t think we’ll ever really know the truth of what went down, whether it was Anthony who contacted Christian, whether it was Lewis, his old phone, whichever way it goes, we’re never going to fully know the truth.”
