Christian Horner rubbished the idea of a "hostage exchange" between Red Bull and Ferrari to allow Laurent Mekies to become the new AlphaTauri team principal.
On Saturday, a report from Motorsport Italy claimed that the Scuderia might choose not to release the Frenchman in time to join AlphaTauri for 2024 unless Red Bull returned the favour with several engineers being eyed for a move to Maranello to work on their car for next season.
It did not go unnoticed that Horner had a chat with Ferrari chairman John Elkann this weekend. But, speaking to Mirror Sport in Monaco, the Red Bull chief dismissed the idea of such a deal happening.