Christian Horner says he is not listening to Toto Wolff after the Mercedes chief played down his team’s chances of success this season.
Mercedes have suffered an underwhelming start to the season.
Neither Lewis Hamilton nor George Russell have been able to gain any consistency despite talk of vast improvements to the W15 vehicle.
But Horner says it is too early for Wolff to be writing off a season.
“It’s very early to write off your year, there’s still 20 races to go,” Horner said. “I’ve learned not to listen too much to what Toto says over the years.”