While the reason for Horner's ousting has not been revealed, Red Bull senior advisor Helmut Marko has pointed out that performance concerns led to his exit, and that the decision was taken by the managing director of Red Bull GmbH, Oliver Mintzlaff. Newsweek Sports reported his comments:

Lando Norris took pole position Saturday for Formula 1's Belgian Grand Prix after Max Verstappen won the sprint race earlier in the day.

The biggest surprise arguably came in Q1 when Lewis Hamilton was knocked out of qualifying, the stewards deleting his lap time due to a track limit infringement. The Ferrari driver starts 16th in Sunday’s race — his worst qualifying result of the season.

Lewis Hamilton, last year's winner with Mercedes, apologised to Ferrari for an unacceptable performance after failing to get through the first phase of Belgian Grand Prix qualifying on Saturday.

SportsLine's model analyzes Red Bull's Max Verstappen, McLaren's Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, and the rest of the starting grid's chances at the 2025 F1 Belgian GP

Lewis Hamilton, Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Fernando Alonso have all taken the opportunity to add a new power unit to their F1 2025 engine pool at Spa after tough qualifying

McLaren wants its title-fighting drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.to consider the long game at the start of the Belgian Grand Prix with