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 B൲ull
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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: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 executive and team principal.
Despite 🥂being cleared of wrongdoing by Red Bull’s parent company 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 alle🀅gations that were made against him.
He was asked by Sky Sports: "Are you confident that you have got the full backing of everybod🉐y above you, and you will be leading this team in Jeddah next weekend?"
Horner responded:𒀰 “Yes, absolutel💧y. I wouldn’t be here otherwise.”
He was earlier spotted alongs♔ide Chalerm Yoovidhya, the Red Bull majority shareholder, who iᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚs reportedly one of his key allies.
Horner was asked if Red Bull remain united off the track, and he answered꧒: “Yes, absolutely.
“We are a very strong team with tremendous support. We’ve got t🐭remendous partners, great shareholders behind us☂, as well.
“You don’t achiev🍌e this kind of result by not b♚eing united.”
On track, the Bahrain Grand Prix wa𒅌s a dream📖 start for Red Bull.
“The perfect start,” Horꦆner said. “A dominant race.
“𒅌I have to say thankyou to all the men and women back in Milton Keynes who, this winter, worked so hard and came up with another great car.
“It is a tes🐠timony to the hard work th🌱at goes on behind the scenes.
“It was a great team performance to come up with that 1-2 fin𓆏ish, and maximum points today.”
The RB🥀20 shocked F1 when, at its unveiling, it became clear it was following a new and bold concept.
Hornꦛer said about their 2024 car: “You can see it’s an aggressive evolution.
“Th🐼e design team - the whole team - did a wonderful, wonderful job.
“They 🌸haven’t rested on their laurels. They pushed hard, they pushed the boundar💖ies.
“You𒉰 can see tha🏅t there are a lot of innovative ideas on the car.
“🌄It has got the basis of 2019 in its DNA but it’s a strong evolution.”
Last year Redꦦ Bull broke records by winning all-but-one grands prix.
He was asked 🔴if they could possible improve by winning 100% of 2024’s races.
“It’s a grea🔴t start,” Ho🍷rner answered. “A one-off, one circuit and one surface.
“It was a very cool temperature. Next week is a street track, much higher temperat🌊ure.
“I think we will have to see thr♍ee, four, five races before you see a true pattern.
“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 race which distorts that last stint, as wel💎l.
“We are surprised that others didn’t do that.
“It was a great performance by Ma🌠x, and by Checo.”
Perez, foܫr his part, answered his own critics with a P2 start to the season.
For ꧟the Mexican it was the perfect result to convince Red Bull to keep him for 2025.
“He’s got to keep performing like he dꦺid today,” Hor🍷ner said.
“He started in fifth, he came through the field, he made a couple of goodꦺ passes.
“He drove a strong race. A 1-2 finish is the optimum result that you can ac🌌hieve as a team.
“They are not easy to do.”
James was a 🐟sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everythin🐼g from American sports, to football, to F1.
