{"id":199762,"date":"2025-10-09T06:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199762\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T06:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:59:09","slug":"no-point-closing-the-door-on-christian-horner-amid-new-team-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199762\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No point closing the door\u2019 on Christian Horner amid new team search"},"content":{"rendered":"

Williams team principal James Vowles has acknowledged that, while former Red Bull Racing CEO and team boss Christian Horner has not approached the team from Grove in pursuit of a return to Formula 1, future conversations cannot be ruled out.<\/p>\n

The former Mercedes man said there\u2019s \u201cno point closing the door\u201d on change, though Williams<\/a> is currently pleased with its structure.<\/p>\n

Williams willing to have conversation with Christian Horner<\/p>\n

Christian Horner rose to prominence as the man in charge of transforming Red Bull Racing into a championship-winning outfit in the challenging world of Formula 1.<\/p>\n

From the team\u2019s debut back in 2005, Horner was the face of the team, guiding it to secure eight World Drivers\u2019 Championships split equally between Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen, along with six Constructors\u2019 titles.<\/p>\n

The news that Horner would be leaving his role at the team with immediate effect following the 2025 British Grand Prix came as a shock both to Horner himself and to the motorsport media establishment as a whole.<\/p>\n

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The ties between Horner and Red Bull have been officially cut, as PlanetF1.com reported last month<\/a>.\u00a0The former boss is believed to have walked away with a $100m settlement agreement and is believed to be allowed to return to the paddock in some capacity in the latter half of the F1 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Since his departure, Horner has been in contact with several different Formula 1 teams, including Aston Martin and Haas, though the content of the conversations between Horner and those teams is currently unclear. It is believed that, should Horner return, he would be primarily interested in more of an ownership role in order to guarantee his place in F1 for the future.<\/p>\n

One team that Horner hasn\u2019t approached, though, is Williams.<\/p>\n

During the team principals\u2019 press conference during the Singapore Grand Prix weekend, James Vowles of Williams was asked if Horner has approached Williams seeking further conversations.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d Vowles replied. \u201cSimple.\u201d<\/p>\n

But while Horner hasn\u2019t reached out, Vowles wouldn\u2019t definitively rule out a conversation with the former Red Bull man.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you should always welcome a conversation,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no point closing the door.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, there doesn\u2019t seem to be a role available for Horner at the Grove-based team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very happy with the structure that we have, and it\u2019s working. So I don\u2019t see any reason to make any changes to that,\u201d Vowles explained.<\/p>\n

Vowles himself is a fairly recent hire, taking over at Williams back in 2023 in an effort to modernize the legacy team and bring it back to competitive standards \u2014 and his success was confirmed by Carlos Sainz\u2019s breakthrough podium at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

Read next:\u00a0Five of the biggest flash points between team-mates in F1 history: Hamilton, Verstappen and more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williams team principal James Vowles has acknowledged that, while former Red Bull Racing CEO and team boss Christian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,1199,817,813,816,818,21764,44,17165,85,819],"class_list":{"0":"post-199762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-christian-horner","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-home-page","15":"tag-james-vowles","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-popular","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-williams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199762","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=199762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}