John Noble

But inevitably, that was never going to happen.

They were going to try to manage it as much as they could.

It's always disappointing when we get these big potential conflicts and clashes and all this sort of thing are the lifeblood of Formula One.

And you want them to run and run and run because it's better soap opera.

So if you've got the pair of them smiling and laughing and doing these photo things, it's not great.

But I think it's inevitable.

They're not going to put statements out and say things in public.

They would keep that for post-Multi21, I think.

But then also there was what was going on in the factory because Christian had to now manage a situation where the captain of Team Vettel, Helmut Marko, had kind of made pretty clear where he was at.

And then he was also trying to manage things between Seb and Mark.

So there were two aspects here.

He had them in the factory.

chat them together.

Mark had let rip on a few things that he didn't feel the support.

And I heard there was quite an interesting story about there was a

Christine was aware of Mark now feeling this quite open and said, right, the best way to solve this is to get Mark and Marco together and we'll sort it out.

So call them into their office and basically said to Mark, right, you've told me some things now about you don't feel you're getting the support.

You don't feel you're getting the backing.

You feel that Marco is very one-sided.

Tell him to your face.