Christian Horner
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No RB succession plan for Marko and Mateschitz
Christian Horner has said there is not a succession plan in place at Red Bull for when Dietrich Mateschitz and Helmut Marko decide to leave the sport.
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Horner on how Red Bull pinched Max from Mercedes
Christian Horner has described how Red Bull beat Mercedes to the signing of Max Verstappen as a prodigiously talented 16-year-old.
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Red Bull $1.8m crash cost is double Marko’s estimate
Christian Horner has confirmed a cost figure for the damage caused by Max Verstappen’s Silverstone crash – double the previous estimate.
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Horner: ‘Foolhardy’ to overlook title fight for 2022
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner does not see any logic to giving up on developing the RB16B, despite the new cars coming for 2022.
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Wolff’s Silverstone conduct ‘unacceptable,’ says Horner
Christian Horner feels Toto Wolff’s “lobbying” of the stewards at the British Grand Prix was “unacceptable.”
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Horner launches scathing attack on Hamilton
Christian Horner launched a withering attack on Lewis Hamilton after the British Grand Prix opening-lap incident that sent Max Verstappen to hospital.
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Horner tells FIA ‘deal with it’ after Lewis/Max collision
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner felt Lewis Hamilton was squarely to blame for his and Max Verstappen’s first-lap collision at the British Grand Prix.
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Horner finding Ricciardo’s McLaren struggles ‘sad’
Christian Horner is “sad” that ex-Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo has found life difficult since joining McLaren this year.
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Red Bull see no risk to 2022 despite upgrade drive
Red Bull boss Christian Horner believes his team are doing a good job of balancing this season with their 2022 efforts.
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Horner: F1 must avoid being another Formula E
Christian Horner has expanded on his opinion that Formula 1’s next evolution of engines needs to be “exciting, different and relevant”.
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Horner: F1 must avoid equivalent of ‘diving footballers’
Christian Horner said penalties were applied too liberally to drivers in the Austrian Grand Prix, and that F1 should avoid going down the path of penalising drivers for slight infringements or racing incidents.
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Horner hails ‘most dominant’ win against Mercedes
Christian Horner hailed Red Bull’s “most dominant” win of the season as Max Verstappen coasted to victory in the Styrian Grand Prix.
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Horner in no rush to extend Perez’s contract
Christian Horner says Red Bull will not rush into a decision about Sergio Perez’s future following his first victory for the team.
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Horner disagrees with Wolff’s public roasts
Christian Horner and Toto Wolff’s disagreements have extended to a new subject – whether “roasting” their team in public is advisable.
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Wolff labels Horner ‘a windbag’ as spat continues
F1’s flexi-wing squabbling was ramped up another notch before Azerbaijan Grand Prix qualifying as Toto Wolff hit back at Christian Horner.
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Horner was just ‘some kid’ appointed Red Bull boss
Christian Horner has described how he had to win over the Red Bull workforce when he joined as team principal – their response having been: “Who’s this kid?”
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Wolff has ‘respect’ for Horner’s achievements
Despite Nico Rosberg’s opinion that Toto Wolff “doesn’t like Christian Horner very much”, the Mercedes F1 boss has “respect” for his Red Bull rival.
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Horner has a ‘lucky toilet’ at every circuit
Red Bull boss Christian Horner has revealed that at every circuit he goes to, he must find himself a lucky toilet.
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Red Bull admit Monaco defeat is not an option
Christian Horner admits Red Bull cannot afford to be beaten by Mercedes in Monaco if they are to remain in touch with their arch-rivals.
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Max won’t play mind games with Hamilton – Horner
Christian Horner says Max Verstappen “will do his talking on the track” rather than engage in verbal jousting with Lewis Hamilton.
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Horner: Red Bull weren’t ready for Verstappen stop
Christian Horner praised the Red Bull pit crew after the Spanish Grand Prix, even though a four-second stop for Max Verstappen fell short of their usual high standards.
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Horner: Perez wasn’t kept out to hinder Hamilton
Christian Horner says it was never a consideration to extend Sergio Perez’s first stint at the Portuguese Grand Prix to disrupt Lewis Hamilton.
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Cowell unlikely to join Hodgkinson at Red Bull
Christian Horner has reiterated Andy Cowell is unlikely to follow Ben Hodgkinson in switching from the Mercedes engine programme to Red Bull’s.
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Perez took days to realise Horner had his wallet
Sergio Perez has revealed he only knew he had left his wallet at Christian Horner’s home when the Red Bull boss phoned to tell him – a few days later!
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‘Control-alt-delete’ saved Perez’s race in Bahrain
Christian Horner has confirmed it was literally the equivalent of ‘CTRL-ALT-DELETE’ that Sergio Perez had to execute to save his Bahrain Grand Prix.
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Horner calls for halt to track limits ‘abuse’
Christian Horner hopes to see grey areas removed from the track limits issue in F1 after Sir Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen’s duel in Bahrain.
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Red Bull hope correlation work leads to success
Red Bull hope their newly-launched RB16B has resolved the correlation issues which undermined their hopes of challenging for the World Championship last year.
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Horner: ‘Exciting’ to see how teams tackle 2021
Christian Horner thinks it will be fascinating to see what strategy Red Bull’s main rivals take in developing their 2021 cars ahead of the big regulation changes next year.
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Horner happy to ‘experiment’ with F1 sprint races
Christian Horner believes F1 “shouldn’t be afraid of experimenting” when it comes to the contentious proposal for sprint races being introduced.
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‘Abu Dhabi defeat will have fired up Mercedes’
Christian Horner believes Max Verstappen’s dominant victory in the most recent F1 race could have fired up Mercedes to produce an even better car this year.