Speaking during today's press conference in Barcelona, Toto Wolff and Christian Horner have agreed to put their differences aside after a bruising 2021 season which saw tensions rise between the two teams on and off the track.

The championship fight between Mercedes's Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull's Max Verstappen had caused a war of words to break out between the two team principals, with the pair's arguments starting at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend after a row regarding 'bendy wings' had gotten personal. 

Horner and Wolff continued their war of words as the season progressed, with neither man missing an opportunity to goad their rival. But at the final press conference of the season in Abu Dhabi, the pair shook hands and exchanged pleasantries, indicating that the feud had ended between the pair even though both teams were in with a chance of winning both the drivers and the constructors championships.

In spite of Hamilton narrowly losing the driver's championship in controversial circumstances, Wolff now believes it is time to move on from last year's championship fight and instead focus on the 2022 campaign, which will see Mercedes attempt to win a ninth consecutive Constructors' Championship.

"It's to be expected. It got fierce at times and brutal. But there's a lot at stake. It's a Formula 1 world championship, and there's the fighting on track and the fighting off track for advantages. So that's okay."

"But we need to move on. There's been so much talk about Abu Dhabi that it came to a point that it is really damaging for all of us stakeholders of F1, and we've closed the chapter and moved on. Now it's about 2022, the game is on again, all points to zero, and new opportunity and new risk."

Horner echoed his Mercedes counterpart as he stated that his team must also focus solely on this season. He also added that it was essential to re-establish a sense of self-respect between the pair after a season that was chocked full of insults. 

"I think that maybe we share differences of opinion over Abu Dhabi, but that's all done and dusted, and all focus is very much now on 2022; I think what you did see last year was a fantastic competition from the first race to the last race. I think that's been a key part of Formula 1's revival in popularity. It has been that competition, and so certainly we hope that there's going to be an equally exciting year, although ideally a little less exciting at times."

"I think there could be some other competitors joining that battle as well. So particularly with a clean sheet of paper, with these brand new cars, it's a complete reset. It's arguably the biggest regulation change in the last 40 years, but I'm sure the intensity of (the) rivalry between the teams and the drivers will be as pertinent as ever."