{"id":15763,"date":"2025-07-10T09:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/horner-out-of-red-bull-end-of-an-era-in-formula-1\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:37:13","slug":"horner-out-of-red-bull-end-of-an-era-in-formula-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/horner-out-of-red-bull-end-of-an-era-in-formula-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Horner Out of Red Bull: End of an Era in Formula 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Christian Horner leaves Red Bull after two decades<\/h2>\n\n\nRed Bull team confirmed this Wednesday the departure of Christian Horner, who leaves his position as team director after 20 years. Horner had been at the head of the team since 2005, overseeing its successful seasons in the 2010s and the current one.\n\nInternal sources indicate that the atmosphere within the team had become tense, a situation aggravated by the challenges on the track this year and the uncertainty about the future of Max Verstappen, the star driver.\n\nIn the last month, Horner denied reports suggesting a possible interest from Ferrari to replace Fred Vasseur.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0709%2Fr1516735_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Christian Horner became Red Bull team principal in 2005.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Christian Horner asumi\u00f3 como director de Red Bull en 2005.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nHorner&#8217;s situation seemed secure while he had the support of Chalerm Yoovidhya, Red Bull&#8217;s majority shareholder. However, this dynamic seems to have changed.\n\nThe news comes a year after Horner kept his position following an internal investigation into alleged inappropriate conduct.\n\nThis deepened the political divisions after the death of Dietrich Mateschitz in 2022.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0709%2Fr1516750_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Max Verstappen&#039;s future at Red Bull has been an ongoing issue this season.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>El futuro de Max Verstappen en Red Bull ha sido un tema recurrente esta temporada.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nLast year also saw the departure of Adrian Newey, technical director, to Aston Martin.\n\nLaurent Mekies, former Racing Bulls team director, has been promoted to CEO of Red Bull Racing.\n\nUnder Horner&#8217;s leadership, Red Bull won eight drivers&#8217; championships and six constructors&#8217; championships. The team achieved its 124 Grand Prix victories under his direction.\n\nThis year, the frustrations within the team were evident, with Verstappen repeatedly expressing his problems with the car.\n\nVerstappen&#8217;s future in the team has also been questioned, with Mercedes monitoring the exit clauses in his contract related to performance.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We would like to thank Christian Horner for his exceptional work over the last 20 years. With his tireless commitment, experience, knowledge and innovative thinking, he has been instrumental in establishing Red Bull Racing as one of the most successful and attractive teams in Formula 1. Thank you for everything, Christian, and you will always be an important part of our team&#8217;s history.<\/p><cite>Oliver Mintzlaff<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nRed Bull has confirmed that Alan Permane has replaced Mekies as the junior team director, having previously been the director of Racing Bulls.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Horner leaves Red Bull after two decades Red Bull team confirmed this Wednesday the departure of Christian Horner, who leaves his position as team director after 20 years. Horner had been at the head of the team since 2005, overseeing its successful seasons in the 2010s and the current one. Internal sources indicate that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3156,657,444,645],"class_list":{"0":"post-15763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-christian-horner","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-red-bull","11":"tag-verstappen"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}