Key won't be replaced at Toro Rosso

Toro Rosso and Red Bull are so mad about the Key departure. They are done fighting it, now they're are understating the impact. But did anybody else notice this shameful statement?

“The position will not be filled. The technical director, in this sense, is no longer necessary because the concept [for the car] comes from Red Bull Racing,"

I mean damn... I guess you have to respect the shamelessness. But come on...

Of course, that specific bit was what, as the net loves to say, "triggered" me. This is just Red Bull saving face in the way they love to do it: throwing shit around them. A trait they seem to have picked up from Jaques Villeneuve.. Although Marko's and Horner's own shitflinging merits are not to be discredited.

It looks neutral at first, until you realize that this is basically Marko taking his toys as soon as he dont get as he want and shouts "I let you win!". The gist of this is "fine, you can have Key, we dont need him anyway. Its RB trying to save face when its clear they simply lost Key, a... uhuh... key member of their STR project. This is the way RB thank people who have laid a groundstone for their operations.

Calle that’s all projection and speculation! That way we can read everything and noting from any snippet of text: Don’t even need any context any longer either, we’ll just make it up as we go along. And of course we’ll present opinions as facts, first rule..

Except it isnt. You can pretty clearly read it from the way RB has talked about these things before, and from the fact that its quite literally there. Yes, they will base much of their 2019 design from the RB chassis, but so could they do earlier too, with Key on board. I never said that this is an objective fact, as you might've noticed, but there is no denying that it stinks of "the Marko". Just read the stuff he said when first Vettel, and now Ricciardo and Key left.

I can’t relate to your insinuation. Looking at all comments by RB about Ricciardo leaving, not one bad word even though RB was clearly unpleasantly surprised. Look at how they parted on the last day. Surely this does not at all reflect the sentiments voiced here.

Hombibi, if you go back and look at the timeline, you'll see that Brown of McLaren announced James Key back in July (26th). The very next day, Marko's barking about not letting him go! Really. Did you just want to throw shade at McLaren's announcement at the track (Hungry) to save face and the embarrassment of someone actually wanting to leave Red Bull? OR, is it being butt-hurt finding out in the papers that ole' Lando Norris wasn't going to go to T.R. to replace Hartley? Spiteful stuff.

The main reason Key wanted out of his contract back then ((june/July) is because the decision to go with Honda had been made-the difference in Honda/Renault engine architecture is too different to put off the decision any longer. The writing was on the wall: to increase synergism amongst the teams for 2019.

All this is to really highlight Marko knowing that one of F1's most talented designers would have nothing to design for the rest of the year, let alone any future cars! So what, are you going to keep a man in a contract for the next 3.5yrs where he cannot do what he was hired to do? Just out of spite? If the E.U. got a hold of this, R.B. would have a serous lawsuit on their hands.

Yeah, so none of the preceding comments are based on projection and speculation. Extrapolation from Marko's previous quotes give me context, leading to this summation. My question to you, Hombibi is what are you using as context for Marko's responses?