Christian Horner’s defiant “united” response to question about losing his job
Christian Horner insists that hꦐe 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 paddoc🧸k.
Horner continues to deny the allꦕegations that 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💞 this team in Jeddah next weekend?"
Horner respond🌸ed: “Yes, absolutely. I wouldn’t be here otherwise.”
H꧙e was earlier spotted alongside Chalerm Yoovidhya, the Red Bull majority shareholder, who is reportedly one of his key🅰 allies.
Horner was asked if Red Bull remai😼n united of🐈f the track, and he answered: “Yes, absolutely.
“We are a very strong team with tremendous support. We’ve got tremendous partners, great shareholders behind🐽 us, as well.
“You don’t achieve this kind of result by no🦄t being united.”
On track, the Bahrain Grand Prix was 💃a dream start f🐲or Red Bull.
“Th👍e𒆙 perfect start,” Horner said. “A dominant race.
“I have to say thꩵankyou 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 testimony to the hard wor🦄k that goes on behind the sc💎enes.
“It was a great team performance to come up with that 1-2 finish, and maximum points todayཧ.”
The RB20 shocked F1 𒁃when, at its unveiling, it became clear it was following a new and bold concept.
Horner said about their 2024 car: “You 🍌can see it🎃’s an aggressive evolution.
“The design team - the whole team - di💖d a wonderful, wonderful job.
“They haven’t rested on their lau💙rels. They pushed hard, they pushed th❀e boundaries.
“You can see that there are a lot of innovative ideas onꦕ the car.
“It has got t🎀he basis of 2019 in its DNA but it’s a strong evolution.”
Last year Red🔴 Bull broke records by winning all♔-but-one grands prix.
He was ask🌌ed if they could possible improve by winning 100% of 2024’s races.
“It’s a great 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 temperature.
“I think we will have to see three, four, fi🤪ve races before you see a true pattern.
“What we saw in testing was that t👍he field has converged.
“So you can’t base too much on this one race.
“We took an extra soft tyre i🌌nto this race 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 Checo.”
Pꦿerez, for his part, answered his own critics with a P2 sta♎rt to the season.
For the Mexican it was the perfect꧋ result to convince Red Bull to keep him for 2025.
“He’s got to k🌟eep performing like he did today,” Horner﷽ said.
“He sꦓtarted 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 everything from American s🥀ports, to football, to F1.
