Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says Formula 1 has not proposed a ban on teams using their motorhomes at European races, despite managing director Ross Brawn’s suggestion they could.

Brawn floated the idea in February as a means of reducing teams’ costs and environmental impact. Dozens of trucks are sent around Europe by teams to construct the vast facilities which are constructed in the paddock.

Red Bull has a combined double motorhome for its team and sister outfit AlphaTauri. Horner told RaceFans in an exclusive interview the proposed new commercial agreement with F1 will not prevent them using similar facilities in future.

“It’s within it all the drafts that have come through from FOM [Formula 1 Management],” said Horner. “There’s no change to the European motorhomes.”

Brawn pointed out teams already use pre-fabricated facilities instead of motorhomes at non-European races. Other team principals have supported using similar arrangements for European races.

“The reality is, we work out of temporary facilities more often than not, and we adapt quite well,” said McLaren team principal Zak Brown. “The Singapores, the Mexicos, the Abu Dhabis, the Bahrains all have very nice facilities. China, et cetera… So I think it’s something that we would probably be supportive of.”

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Other aspects of the negotiations over a future commercial deal were progressing well at the time the global pandemic began to disrupt the start of the season, said Horner.

“There’s some details that need to be ironed out,” he said. “I don’t think they are insurmountable. It depends on the willingness on both sides to want to concluded a deal. The type of things, if you go around the table probably within a couple of weeks, you could have it sorted.”

“I don’t think there’s any major sticking points. Inevitably, the teams want more money, the promoter wants to pay less.”

As well as the commercial side of the negotiations, F1 and the teams are also discussing changes to how the sport is run.

“The governance is more or less accepted,” said Horner. “I think there’s a bit of tidying up some of the things like effectively the rider that you would have turning up to do an event. We shouldn’t be paying for facilities at international flyways as well as the performers it seems wrong that we’re paying for hospitality, tents and tables and chairs and forklift trucks.”

“So it’s mopping up some of those details. But I think we’re into the detail rather than the fundamentals.”

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