{"id":452969,"date":"2026-02-02T05:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452969\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T05:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:02:11","slug":"christian-horner-return-comments-unfinished-business-with-sport-alpine-consortium-dealings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452969\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Horner return comments, unfinished business with sport, Alpine consortium dealings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christian Horner<\/a> has broken his silence on the rumours of his return to Formula 1<\/a>, admitting he has “unfinished business” in the elite sport.<\/p>\n

At the European Motor Show in Dublin, Horner candidly spoke on missing the team he helmed for two decades, Red Bull<\/a>, and where he may be landing if he does make a shock return.<\/p>\n

“I feel like I have unfinished business in Formula 1. It didn’t finish the way that I would have liked it to finish,” he said.<\/p>\n

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“But I am not going to come back for just anything. I am only going to come back for something that can win.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want to go back in the paddock unless I have something to do. I miss the sport, I miss the people, I miss the team that I built.<\/p>\n

\"IMOLA,<\/p>\n

Christian Horner admits that he misses the Formula 1 paddock. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“I had 21 incredible years in Formula 1. I had a great run, won a lot of races, championships and worked with some amazing drivers, engineers and partners.”<\/p>\n

The 52-year-old admitted that to return to the paddock, he would need an active role in a team at an executive level, not “just a hired hand”.<\/p>\n

One team that might be able to hand him an offer is Alpine, with the team recently acknowledging that Horner is in talks to sign on.<\/p>\n

The Brit is among a group eyeing a possible investment into the struggling team after sports-investment firm Otro Capital<\/a> said it is exploring the option of selling its 24 per cent stake.<\/p>\n

“I don’t need to go back. I could stop my career now,” Horner added.<\/p>\n

“So I would only go back for the right opportunity to work with great people, and to work in an environment where people want to win, and they shared that desire. I would want to be a partner, rather than just a hired hand, but we will see how it plays out.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Christian Horner will not return to the sport unless it is in an active role with a team. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“I am not in a rush. I don’t need to do anything.<\/p>\n

“What has been fascinating is that I stepped out of Red Bull on July 8, and this is the first time I have actually spoken to anyone.<\/p>\n

“[In the media] I have been going to every single Formula 1 team<\/a>, which has ranged from the back of the grid, to the middle of the grid, and to the front of the grid.<\/p>\n

“And there just seems to be an appetite as to: ‘What am I going to do? Where am I going to go?’.<\/p>\n

“The reality is that until the spring I can’t do anything anyway. It is very flattering to keep being associated with all of these different teams.”<\/p>\n

Formula 1 returns to the track on March 6-8 in Albert Park, Melbourne<\/a>, but two official tests will be conducted with the new 2026 cars in Bahrain on February 11-13 and 18-20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Horner has broken his silence on the rumours of his return to Formula 1, admitting he has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-452969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452969","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=452969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}