{"id":17298,"date":"2025-07-20T03:08:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/red-bull-removes-christian-horner-after-20-years-whats-next-for-verstappen\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T03:08:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:08:44","slug":"red-bull-removes-christian-horner-after-20-years-whats-next-for-verstappen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/red-bull-removes-christian-horner-after-20-years-whats-next-for-verstappen\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull removes Christian Horner after 20 years: What’s next for Verstappen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christian Horner Out of Red Bull: The End of an Era<\/h2>\n\nAfter two decades leading the team, Christian Horner has been removed as team principal of Red Bull, as confirmed by the team on Wednesday. This announcement marks the end of a highly successful period for the Formula 1 team.\n\nHorner took office in 2005 and was fundamental to Red Bull’s successes, both in the early 2010s and in the current one. Under his leadership, the team achieved remarkable dominance in Formula 1.\n\nThe internal atmosphere at Red Bull had become increasingly tense, a situation exacerbated by the challenges on the track this year and the uncertainty about the future of Max Verstappen, the team’s star driver.\n\nSeveral meetings took place in the last few weeks, including the Austrian Grand Prix and the British Grand Prix. In at least one of them, Verstappen and Oliver Mintzlaff, a key figure in the company’s corporate structure, participated, who had been pushing for a change in the racing team’s leadership.\n\n\n
\"Christian<\/figure>\n\n\nHorner had denied rumors about his possible departure for Ferrari. However, his position always seemed secure as long as he had the support of Chalerm Yoovidhya, the majority shareholder of Red Bull.\n\nThe news on Wednesday comes a year after Horner kept his position following an internal investigation into alleged sexual misconduct.\n\nThis deepened the political tensions that followed the death of Dietrich Mateschitz in 2022.\n\nHorner had a tense relationship with Jos Verstappen, Max’s father, and with Helmut Marko, Red Bull advisor.\n\n\n
\"Max<\/figure>\n\n\nIn the last year, the departure of Adrian Newey, legendary technical director, who joined Aston Martin, also occurred.\n\nLaurent Mekies, former team principal of Racing Bulls, has been promoted to CEO of Red Bull Racing.\n\nUnder Horner’s leadership, Red Bull conquered eight drivers’ championships and six constructors’ championships. The team achieved its 124 Grand Prix victories with Horner at the helm.\n\nThe frustrations within the team have become evident this season, with Verstappen repeatedly expressing his issues with the car.\n\nVerstappen’s future in the team has also been questioned, with Mercedes monitoring the exit clauses in his contract.\n\n\n
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“We would like to thank Christian Horner for his exceptional work over the last 20 years,” Mintzlaff stated.<\/p>\n\nOliver Mintzlaff<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nRed Bull confirmed that Alan Permane has replaced Mekies as the junior team director, having previously been the director of Racing Bulls.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christian Horner Out of Red Bull: The End of an Era After two decades leading the team, Christian Horner has been removed as team principal of Red Bull, as confirmed by the team on Wednesday. This announcement marks the end of a highly successful period for the Formula 1 team. Horner took office in 2005 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3156,657,444,645],"class_list":{"0":"post-17298","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\/17298","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=17298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}