Andrea Stella says McLaren supports discussions over team transfers following Laurent Mekies’ immediate move from one Red Bull team to the other to replace Christian Horner.

But it’s a subject that the Italian insists is both “interesting” and “quite complex”.

Laurent Mekies replaced Christian Horner with immediate effect

Additional reporting by Thomas Maher

Red Bull dropped a bombshell on the motorsport world when it announced Horner had been sacked from his role as CEO and Red Bull Racing team principal last month.

The Briton was immediately replaced by Racing Bulls’ Mekies, with Alan Permane taking charge at the Faezna-based team.

Red Bull was in a fortunate position where it didn’t have to deal with gardening leave, or other delaying tactics to prevent sensitive intellectual prop

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