The Christian Horner saga has fascinated the globe, a clash of sport, celebrity, ego and corporate governance that has a very uncertain outcome.
Christian Horner, the globally famous Formula 1 team principal who has guided Red Bull Racing to the most dominant winning run in the sport’s 75-year history, has not been heard from and rarely seen beyond his team garage at the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix this week.
Wolff has made no secret of his desire to sign Red Bull’s reigning world champion driver, Max Verstappen, should the 26-year-old Dutchman leave the team as is being speculated.Verstappen fronted the media at the back of the team garage in the Paddock, in a press conference one seasoned motorsport journalist described as a circus. After a few routine motorsport questions, the media pounced onTV series transformed into a bigger celebrity than many drivers.
“But from what I know, everything is handled in the right way. I’m not going into any further details from that side because I don’t know more than that,” Verstappen said. “There’s a battle for power going on there,” the commentator universally known as “Crofty” told the guests, which included Australian Grand Prix Corporation chairman Martin Pakula, the former state major events minister, and his new chief executive, Travis Auld, the former AFL executive.Much will depend on whether Red Bull is still perceived to have the best engine in 2026 when a rule change kicks into gear, he said.
Ten days after news of the investigation broke, Horner – team principal at Red Bull Racing since its inception in 2005 – appeared at the launch of the team’s 2024 car, the RB20, at its Milton Keynes headquarters in England along with Verstappen and driver Sergio Perez. He refused to comment, but conceded “inevitably there has been a distraction, but the team are very together … it’s been very much business as usual, the support has been fantastic”.
But Max’s father Jos, an ex-F1 driver who was a former teammate of the legendary Michael Schumacher, gave an incendiary interview to Britain’s, saying “the team is in danger of being torn apart” if Horner stayed as team principal, adding “it can’t go on the way it is, it will explode”.
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