{"id":15883,"date":"2025-07-23T11:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/15883\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:57:11","slug":"f1-news-zak-brown-weighs-in-on-christian-horner-red-bull-sacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/15883\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 news: Zak Brown weighs in on Christian Horner Red Bull sacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/XPB_1358212_HiRes.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018A lot of drama\u2019: McLaren boss weighs in on Horner sacking\"\/>Zak Brown and Christian Horner at the British Grand Prix. Image: XPB Images<\/p>\n<p>Horner was given his marching orders by the energy drinks giant earlier this month following 20 years at the helm of the squad.<\/p>\n<p>The Brit was reportedly given no reason for the sudden decision.<\/p>\n<p>It came over a year after internal investigations into alleged inappropriate behaviour towards a female colleague were dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>This year the team, which has lost key technical staff including designer Adrian Newey, has slipped behind McLaren in competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s led to suggestions star driver Max Verstappen could want out at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by Canadian broadcaster TSN if he was surprised by the Horner sacking, Brown said: \u201cMaybe the timing, but not the result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s been a lot of drama there the last couple of years and it doesn\u2019t seem like that drama has been calming down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe it\u2019s been getting worse. So, I\u2019m not surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/f1-news-2025-bernie-ecclestone-ex-formula-1-boss-comments-reaction-christian-horner-fired-red-bull\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ecclestone says Red Bull treated Horner \u2018like he murdered somebody\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Horner is already being linked with a return to F1 elsewhere, although it is unclear how long he will remain bound to Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven his age and his history in motor racing, I\u2019d be surprised if he didn\u2019t show up somewhere in motor racing,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I don\u2019t know his other interests, whether he wants to go run a football team or what have you, so we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for his interest in speculation surrounding Verstappen\u2019s future, Brown added: \u201cI couldn\u2019t be happier with Oscar [Piastri] and Lando [Norris].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, short of being an interested spectator, I\u2019m very happy with my driver line-up. I don\u2019t really spend any time on it other than what pops up on my phone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zak Brown and Christian Horner at the British Grand Prix. Image: XPB Images Horner was given his marching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,1199,806,805,803,804,85,9657],"class_list":["post-15883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-christian-horner","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-zak-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}