But Red Bull were a marketing company - an excellent one - but at that time, they knew nothing about engineering or building a race car. They didn’t understand how to run an F1 team.

Laurent Mekies, Red Bull Racing CEO© Autosport.com Verstappen on Horner exit and Red Bull F1 future: "All that matters is a fast car" ...

Horner had been Red Bull team principal since it entered F1 as a full constructor in 2005. AP Car design great Adrian Newey joined Aston Martin and sporting director Jonathan Wheatley departed for ...

Horner had been Red Bull team principal since it entered F1 as a full constructor in 2005. He had performed his team and media duties as normal throughout the British Grand Prix last week.

Paul Monaghan, Red Bull’s chief engineer, worked with Horner for all but one of his 20 years at the helm. “To tell the truth, it was a shock to me,” Monaghan told reporters on Friday at Spa.

Red Bull, Verstappen and Pérez, who joined in 2021, continued their climb back to glory, as it won the constructors’ titles in 2022 and 2023 and Verstappen won three consecutive championships.

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner attends a news conference at the Silverstone racetrack, ahead of the British Formula One Grand Prix, on July 4, 2025, in Silverstone, England.

Red Bull sheds its reputation as a publicity-hungry “party team” by taking its first F1 race win with Sebastian Vettel at the Chinese Grand Prix. The team has won 123 more races since then.

MILTON KEYNES, UK — Longtime Red Bull team principal Christian Horner was fired abruptly on Wednesday after a 20-year stint that included eight Formula 1 drivers' titles and a rise to celebrity ...