The one who was the mandamás of the team based in Milton Keynes said that being part of Red Bull It has been a real pride and a very special trip.
After twenty years at the head of Red Bull Racing, Christian Horner has been fired immediately from one of the teams of Formula 1 most important today.
His unexpected departure comes at a fairly critical moment for the Austrian team, which since 2024 has been ‘dismantled’ of important assets such as Adrian Newey, Jonathan Wheatley and of course, “Czech” Pérez.
The now former chief of Red Bull, Christian Horner will always be remembered for being a passionate leader who helped the team to reach the pinnacle of motor racing, however, also for all the scandals he starred.
Horner: the good, the bad and the ugly of the former Red Bull’s chief
Horner began his way in the highest category of motor racing with his right foot, because when he was appointed as Chief of Red Bull in 2005, he became the youngest team director in the category with only 31 years.
During his term, the English achieved with the team a total of 124 wins, 107 pole posations, 100 fast laps, 287 podiums, 6 builders and 8 pilot titles, 4 of them from Sebastian Vettel from 2010 to 2013, and 4 more at the hands of Max Verstappen from 2021 to 2024.
All these numbers place Horner as the most successful team leader of this century, however, it is also considered one of the most infamous characters in the great circus.
While it is true that Christian managed to catapult Red Bull and put it up, and even above elite equipment such as Ferrari, we cannot forget that his management of recent years was plagued with tensions.
The decline of the team began when the problems that existed between Horner and Helmut Marko, team advisor were evident. Also during 2024 it was when the English sexual harassment scandal exploded against an RB employee, which was “clean”.
Later in 2024 the team’s interest in favoring only one of its pilots became increasingly evident, which ended with the sudden output of “Czech” Pérez at the end of the year, a movement that undoubtedly caused the massive repudiation and the decline of the organization in marketing issues, as well as serious financial consequences.
Another of the controversial decisions that marked the management of Horner in Red Bull, was undoubtedly to go up and down pilots to pleasure, being the last sacrificed, Liam Lawson, who after only two races this year, was replaced by Yuki Tsunoda, current coequipero of Max Verstappen.
Although it seems that Red Bull is now aimed towards a promising future with the arrival of Laurent Menkis, the truth is that it is speculated that the project by 2026 has significant deficiencies, which would be causing them to be worthy offers offers from other teams such as Mercedes, a movement that would undoubtedly be terrible for a team that until a year ago, was the terror for all on the grill.
