{"id":435563,"date":"2026-01-25T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435563\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:27:10","slug":"horner-in-talks-over-alpine-buy-in-briatore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435563\/","title":{"rendered":"Horner in talks over Alpine buy-in – Briatore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Red Bull Formula 1 boss Christian Horner is in active negotiations to buy into Alpine’s F1 team, according to its boss Flavio Briatore.<\/p>\n

Several options for Horner to return to F1 have been mooted since his mid-season exit from Red Bull last year, but after the Aston Martin possibility<\/a> came to nothing following a number of twists and turns Alpine emerged as the most prominent route to a short-term comeback.<\/p>\n

The Renault-owned F1 team had sold a 24% stake to a group of investors – headlined by the Otro Capital company<\/a> and with actors Ryan Reynolds and Michael B. Jordan and Kansas City Chiefs players Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce among the celebrity faces of the project – back in 2023, and that 24% stake has been mooted as a logical target for Horner, who is known to want equity in any future F1 project he joins rather than simply taking on a team principal role.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been rumoured of late that Horner was actively in talks with the investors over that 24% stake, which has grown considerably in valuation since the 2023 buy-in despite the downturn in the team\u2019s form. Briatore didn’t exactly refute the possibility when asked about it during Alpine’s 2026 livery launch<\/a>, effectively confirming talks were in progress.<\/p>\n

“In this moment, this is a lot of confusion,” he said. “A few groups – I don’t know how many, six, seven; every day is a new group – every day people call me about Otro. I don’t care.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“So [suppose] Otro want to sell their participation in Alpine. The moment somebody buys 24% of Otro, we still have 75% [the rest] and we discuss it. But for the moment, this is the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I’ve known Christian for many years, I talk with Christian anyway, but this has nothing to do with me.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst you need to buy [the] Otro [share], and after Renault need to accept the buyer, and after we see what’s happening.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“But there’s no link with me, because he’s negotiating with Otro, he’s not negotiating with us.”<\/p>\n

Briatore is known to be friends with Horner. He said last August that Horner was “for the moment not in the picture at Alpine” – but this never ruled out a future collaboration.<\/p>\n

Asked by The Race if Horner would be a good asset to Alpine, Briatore said: “I think everybody’s a good asset to the team, depending in what position you put the people. No problem.”<\/p>\n

Briatore recruited Steve Nielsen to be managing director in a day-to-day leadership role for the team but Briatore himself has been acting as de facto team principal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Red Bull Formula 1 boss Christian Horner is in active negotiations to buy into Alpine’s F1 team,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-435563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435563","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=435563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}