Christian Horner OUT has Red Bull Team Principle and CEO

Dr_Ifto

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Red Bull has confirmed Christian Horner has been released from his role as team principal and CEO.He will be replaced by Laurent Mekies. #F1

I dunno if there are any F1 Fanatics here in GAF, but this was pretty big news today.
 
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What's good for him is that, even unemployed, he can still count on his wife to spice up his life.
Spice Girls 90S GIF
 
It's a shocking move. Stuff like this happens between seasons, you don't sideline your TP during the season unless something happened (or you're Alpine ;)). Maybe Max really signed with Mercedes and Horner will take responsibility for his departure?

And even though I like how Red Bull is a big part of various motorsport discplines and how it promotes young athletes I hate the way how they're parted ways with their long-time employees recently. They sacked Daniel Ricciardo without giving him a chance for a goodbye and now they've said a few empty corpo words to a guy who's been with them for around 20 years and won them multiple championships.
 
It's a shocking move. Stuff like this happens between seasons, you don't sideline your TP during the season unless something happened (or you're Alpine ;)). Maybe Max really signed with Mercedes and Horner will take responsibility for his departure?

And even though I like how Red Bull is a big part of various motorsport discplines and how it promotes young athletes I hate the way how they're parted ways with their long-time employees recently. They sacked Daniel Ricciardo without giving him a chance for a goodbye and now they've said a few empty corpo words to a guy who's been with them for around 20 years and won them multiple championships.
I agree, Red Bull as a whole is really bad in the PR department. It is hard to find any leg to stand on in terms of liking them, other than Max. This reeks of either Max is not going to talk to them about extension because of Christian, and the only way to get him to talk to them is to fire him, or he already signed with Mercedes and its not announced yet.

Or there is some serious allegations about to come out that they are getting ahead of like he diddled some kids or the owners wife
 
I dont follow F1, but know enough from random sports articles on the net Verstappen has crashed and burned compared to his dominant seasons years ago. What happened? His skills getting worse? Or the cars? Or both?
 
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Get the funny Guy at Ferrari to run the team.

Spice girl joke was made so I had to think of something else. They needed content for the netflix show.
 
It's a weird one and a very strange timing. He was cleared of his accusations so it has to be Max related.
There are also some speculations that it could be related to the second driver situation. The team fired Checo, lost a lot of money from his sponsors and didn't gain anything. Lawson was completely lost in that car and Tsunoda is not significantly better.

But would that be enough to remove Christian from power with immediate effect? Don't think so, I still think it's related to Max somehow, especially considering that Pierre Wache (technical director largely responsible for the car) wasn't treated the same way.
 
There are also some speculations that it could be related to the second driver situation. The team fired Checo, lost a lot of money from his sponsors and didn't gain anything. Lawson was completely lost in that car and Tsunoda is not significantly better.

But would that be enough to remove Christian from power with immediate effect? Don't think so, I still think it's related to Max somehow, especially considering that Pierre Wache (technical director largely responsible for the car) wasn't treated the same way.
Good point. I did wonder who Tsunoda managed to get to drive for them.
 
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