Wolff furious after Horner reveals Mercedes blocked deal

Wolff furious Mercedes was exposed

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says he's not happy that Christian Horner chose to reveal details of Friday morning's F1 Strategy Group meeting, in which three Mercedes teams opposed an engine unfreeze for 2015.

Horner made it clear that he was frustrated by Mercedes initially supporting an unfreeze and then changing its mind. The works team, Williams and 2015 customers all voted against a change, but lost out on a majority vote. The plan will now go to the F1 Commission.

"First of all I'm very surprised to hear comments like this," Wolff told FOXSports.com. "Because we had a strategy group this morning, and what we discuss in strategy group meetings is what it says, strategy, and not something that should go to the public.

"No decision has been made because it has to go to the F1 Commission and the World Motor Sport Council, so talking about unfinished business is not how I expect meetings to go. We are having discussions all over the year about regulations, and in that case there are some ideas out there, how to change the regulations for next year and the year after, and it's normal discussion.

"As I said, I'm very surprised that we talk about these things in public. This is a Strategy Group, and what we need to avoid is to make a big wave before decisions are being made. If you understand the process, the Strategy Group makes recommendations to the F1 Commission, and the F1 Commission makes the vote. Nothing else has happened."

Regarding the principal of an unfreeze he said: "I think what we need is no knee-jerk reactions in F1, we need stability. This is not because of my own agenda, because we have the best engine and we want to immobilize or freeze the situation. We have rules, the rules have been written down, some clever people thought about the rules. If we want to change them, let's discuss them, let's follow them, let's follow the governance, and let's see if it make sense or not. And we are the first ones to follow intelligent ideas." Fox Sports