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New information on Christian Horner emerges after shock Red Bull axe:

— Christian Horner’s exit from Red Bull sparked a wave of sadness at the team’s Milton Keynes HQ. Sky Sports’ David Croft and Craig Slater reported emotional scenes as Horner gave a farewell speech and departed, joined by two senior allies.

— Slater revealed Horner was informed of the decision on Tuesday, with senior partners notified that evening. Horner addressed staff at 10am Wednesday and left at 11:25am, following instructions from Red Bull’s Salzburg office for staff to remain silent.

— The two additional departures were Oliver Hughes, Chief Marketing Officer, and Paul Smith, Group Director of Communications—both closely linked to Horner. Their exits further reflect the sweeping changes inside Red Bull’s leadership.

— Croft described a powerful response from employees who had worked under Horner throughout his 20-year reign. Horner was visibly moved during his speech, receiving a standing ovation from staff.

“Yes, and that emotion is one of sadness today.”

“We look around a Red Bull campus that 20 years ago was barely a third of the size that it is now. In Christian Horner’s time as CEO and team principal, he has seen extensions and engine factories, wind tunnel factories built, workforce increased to well over 1000 people now.”

“And that’s just on the car side. The engine side, the wind tunnel that’s been built as well, employing even more.”

“And from those that we’ve managed to speak to, it is a unified sense of disappointment and sadness, at a man that they see, has unified their team, who was never afraid to sit and have a chat to various people, no matter what they did for the organisation.”

“The speech that Christian Horner gave this morning to the factory, we understand, was hugely emotional, and Christian himself was very emotional and broke down on occasion, and he received a massive ovation at the end of that speech from a workforce that are very loyal to him, because he has helped bring success, bonuses and World Championship glory in terms of 14 world titles during his time as team principal.”

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Je catch tjrs pas comment redbull est incapable de faire un char pour que le 2e Driver soit pas totalement off par rapport a Max.

Me semble toutes les autres écuries les 1-2 sont bien plus proche un de l'autre. Mais redbull rien a faire c'est soit une stratégie all on max ou qu'il sont incapable de mettre le char a la main d'un autre driver peu importe lequel

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Je catch tjrs pas comment redbull est incapable de faire un char pour que le 2e Driver soit pas totalement off par rapport a Max.

Me semble toutes les autres écuries les 1-2 sont bien plus proche un de l'autre. Mais redbull rien a faire c'est soit une stratégie all on max ou qu'il sont incapable de mettre le char a la main d'un autre driver peu importe lequel

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I think it’s two things:

If you read Neweys book, and listen to some of the team principals speak about the matter over the years, the fastest car is rarely the easiest to drive, and they must have had a talk on the subject with Max, asking « where do we draw the line ». Knowing Max approach combined with Max raw talent he likely told them « make is as fast and thereby undriveable as you want, I’ll make it work because it’s faster that way»

And

It’s great and all to have Newey at the helm of things, but like in any team/company/business - when everything « relies » or is inclined to rely on one man, the people under him in the department will never give their 100%: whether it is for understanding/passing the baton/design involvement. So as soon as Newey was gone the team does not know how to manage the narrow baseline of the RB cars principle, only being able to make deviations without global understanding: making the car worse for max, and utterly impossible for everyone else
 
android25ua said:
I think it’s two things:

If you read Neweys book, and listen to some of the team principals speak about the matter over the years, the fastest car is rarely the easiest to drive, and they must have had a talk on the subject with Max, asking « where do we draw the line ». Knowing Max approach combined with Max raw talent he likely told them « make is as fast and thereby undriveable as you want, I’ll make it work because it’s faster that way»

And

It’s great and all to have Newey at the helm of things, but like in any team/company/business - when everything « relies » or is inclined to rely on one man, the people under him in the department will never give their 100%: whether it is for understanding/passing the baton/design involvement. So as soon as Newey was gone the team does not know how to manage the narrow baseline of the RB cars principle, only being able to make deviations without global understanding: making the car worse for max, and utterly impossible for everyone else
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Same happened at Mercedes. They lost lots of their people and were lost for a few seasons until things settled down. You are correct about the drivrable part, raw talent’s will always work around isssues. Button, Vettel and Hill have said many times they needed a 100% perfectly setup car. Hill said Prost would often not even mention some issues that weren’t worth talking about or “hadn’t noticed” it’s the same with Max, Lewis, Alonso. They are just on another level of driving. Frankly the lack of actual testing has created a more savage driver
 
I saw a video not long ago where they explained that (forgive me I forget who it was) a driver that was Max's teammate tried to drive Max's car, and it was impossible. The steering was so sensitive that it was impossible to control.
 
Ce qui serais logique c'est qu'il attende l'an prochain pour voir qui est on top des règles 2026 et aller là. N'importe quelle équipe ferait de la place pour Max, il a le beau jeu je pense
 
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