{"id":444260,"date":"2026-01-29T03:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444260\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T03:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:12:07","slug":"christian-horner-visits-fia-as-f1-comeback-rumours-intensify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444260\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Horner visits FIA as F1 comeback rumours intensify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Horner has visited FIA President Mohammed ben Sulayem at FIA headquarters in Paris as rumours grow surrounding an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/series\/single-seater\/formula-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a> comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Horner has remained off the radar of media and wider F1 since his sudden firing by Red Bull following last season\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/results\/2025\/races\/1277\/great-britain\/race-result\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">British Grand Prix. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although lacking any formal confirmation, the Briton has been busy behind the scenes plotting his return to the sport, contacting team\u2019s after the summer break.<\/p>\n<p>Talks with Aston Martin showed promise, however these fizzled away, rumours circulated in mid January Alpine looking like his most likely destination for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>These were verified by Alpine this week, with the news that Horner is in negotiations to buy a 26 per cent stake in the team from OtroCapital. <\/p>\n<p>Preparations for his comeback seem to be continuing, as he has now paid a visit to FIA headquarters in Paris to visit the FIA President.<\/p>\n<p>A social call for Christian Horner?<\/p>\n<p>Social media posted by ben Sulayem showed the FIA President in conversation with Horner inside the FIA offices in Paris. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWonderful to welcome Christian Horner to the FIA Paris offices today,\u201d Ben Sulayem wrote on his social media post, \u201cGood to see you, my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nature of the visit is speculated to be a social call rather than to discuss his potential comeback, as Horner is attending a historic car show in Paris. <\/p>\n<p>Horner, now fully separated from Red Bull, cannot start any new role until at least April, meaning any comeback would not take place until after the 2026 is underway.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/2026\/01\/25\/alpine-confirm-christian-horner-talks-to-buy-minority-stake\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Alpine confirm Christian Horner talks to buy minority stake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Horner has visited FIA President Mohammed ben Sulayem at FIA headquarters in Paris as rumours grow surrounding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[821,64,63,817,71584,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-444260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-alpine","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-horner","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444260","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=444260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}