Christian Horner’s defiant “united” response to question about losing his job
Christian Horner insists🍬 that he retains the backing of his bosses at Red Bull
Christian Horner batted away a question about losing his job by insisting he would still be the Red Bull boss at next week’s F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Horner oversaw a Red Bull 1-2 finish at Saturday’s Bahrain Grand Prix, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen winning and Sergio Perez coming in second.
But the season-opening round has been dominated by the situation surrounding Red Bull’s chief e⛎xecutive and t🧸eam principal.
Despite being cleared of wrongdoing by Red Bull’s parent compan🌳y after complaints against him from a female colleague, an anonymous email address later leaked alleged evidence to over 100 people within the F1 paddock.
Horner continues to deny the allegations th🍎at were made against him.
He was asked by Sky Sports: "Are you confident that you have got the full backing of everybody above you, and you will be leading th🤪is team in Jeddah next weekend?"
Horner responded: “Yes, absolutely. I wouldn’t be here other𓆉wise.”
He was earlier spotted alongside Cha🎃🍸lerm Yoovidhya, the Red Bull majority shareholder, who is reportedly one of his key allies.
Horner was asked if Red Bull remain united off the track, and he ꧑answered: “Yes, ab🐷solutely.
“We are a very strong team with tremendous support. We’ve got tremendous partners, great shareholders behind us, ꧂as well.
“You d🥂on’t achieve this ki🍰nd of result by not being united.”
On tra🧜ck, the Bahrain Grand Prix was a dream start for Red Bullജ.
“The perfect start,” Hor🍨ner said. “A dominant race.
“I have to say thankyou to all the men ꦦand women back in Milton🉐 Keynes who, this winter, worked so hard and came up with another great car.
“It is a 🥀testimony to the hard work👍 that goes on behind the scenes.
“It was a grea🌜t team performance to come up with that 1-2 finish, and ma🀅ximum points today.”
The RB20 shocke⛎d F1 when, at its unveiling, i🥀t became clear it was following a new and bold concept.
Horner said abo♕ut their 2024 car: “You can see it’s an aggressive evolution.
“The design team - the whole team - did a wonderful𒁏, wonderful job.
“They haven’t rested on their laurels. Th📖ey pushed hard, they push🥂ed the boundaries.
“You can see that there are a lot of innovative id🦄eas 🐷on the car.
“It has got the basis of 2019 in its DNA but it’s a strong ev𒁃olution.”
Last year Red Bull broke r♌ecords by winning all-but-one grands prix.
He was asked if they could possible improve by winn🌠ing 100% of 2024’s races.
“It’s a 🦋great start,” Horner answered. “A one-off, one circu💃it and one surface.
“It was a very cool temp🧸erature. Next week is a street track, much higher temperature.
“I think we will have to see three, four, five races before you see a true patte🐠r🌃n.
“What we saw in ⭕testing was that the field has converged.
“So you can’t base too much on this one race.
“We took an extra soft tyre into this racᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ🌊e which distorts that last stint, as well.
“We are surprised that others didn’t do that.
“It was a great performance by Max, and by Checꦺo.”
Pere🍬z, for his part, answered his own critics with a P2 start to the season.
For the Mex𝄹ican it was the perfeꦗct result to convince Red Bull to keep him for 2025.
🐭“He’s got to keep performing like he did today,” Horner said.
“He started in fifth, he came through the field, 🌺he made a couple of good passes.
“He drove a strong race. A 1-2 finish is the optimum result that🍌 you can achieve as a team.
“They are not easy to do.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering eve🅺ryth🥂ing from American sports, to football, to F1.
