Bernie Ecclestone has maintained his long-standing tradition of releasing a Christmas card that captures his perspective on the Formula 1 season, and this year’s edition unsurprisingly focuses on Red Bull’s internal turbulence.<\/p>\n
The 95-year-old former F1 supremo’s seasonal greeting features a striking image of former Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko and Red Bull GmbH CEO Oliver Mintzlaff positioned behind a smoking cannon aimed squarely at Christian Horner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, in typical Ecclestone fashion, the illustration shows Horner safely parachuting away with a substantial bag of money strapped to his back.<\/p>\n
Accompanying the artwork, Ecclestone has penned his customary message reflecting on the year’s events.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“This year marks the 75th anniversary of Formula 1,” Ecclestone wrote. “I have never seen so many changes in the world and a few changes in Formula One. From ‘goodbye Christian’ to the overtaking race of Max, the best driver ever as far as I can remember.”<\/p>\n
The veteran F1 figure continues his assessment of the paddock’s key figures: “Thanks to Zak, McLaren returned to days gone by, while Toto wakes up and Lewis struggles at a non-competitive team.”<\/p>\n
Ecclestone also takes aim at global politics, offering his characteristic blunt commentary on US President Donald Trump: “He rules the world without competition, apart from some men who lack an important body part. Well done Donald.”<\/p>\n
Looking ahead, Ecclestone strikes a somewhat ominous tone: “2026 will not be a peaceful year for Formula 1 and the world is also yearning for peace. So take some quiet days at the end of 2025. At age 95 and with a curious 5-year-old son, I won’t be able to follow my own advice. Do your best in whatever it is you do.”<\/p>\n
The message concludes simply with his signature: “Bernie.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bernie Ecclestone has maintained his long-standing tradition of releasing a Christmas card that captures his perspective on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-370308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370308","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=370308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}