In the midst of a complicated season, the Red Bull directive surprised to announce on Wednesday the dismissal of the historic team director, who came from being a four consecutive years champion.
Surprising bombing in the Formula 1. After 20 years in office, Christian Horner He was fired as team director of the team Red Bull. The news was disseminated for the first hours of this Wednesday and the motives are not yet clear, but they would be the bad results of the current season, despite being the current tetrampeon at the pilot level.
The British, who was in charge of the team from 2005 And he achieved Eight world titles of pilots and six of buildersleft his position immediately, the Formula 1. His place as a team director will be occupied by Laurent Mekiesfrom the satellite team Racing Bulls.
The Thai co -owner YOOVIDHYYA CHALERM and the Austrian co -owner Mark Mateschitztogether with the sports director Oliver Mintzlaffthey decided to unlink Horner Despite its current contract until 2030.
The reasons go beyond the present of the team and sports, since since last year the engineer He had a complaint On the part of a team worker who raised a lot of controversy, but finally did not prosper.
In addition, the strap relation to Jas Verstappenfather of Max, He missed his present in the team, which since the beginning of the year had suffered the enormous decline of his star engineer, Adrian Newey.
“We want to thank Christian Horner for his exceptional work during the last 20 years. With his tireless commitment, experience, knowledge and innovative thought, he has been fundamental to establish Red Bull Racing as one of the most successful and attractive teams of Formula 1”he commented Oliver MintzlaffCEO of Red Bull.
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