Christian Horner has insisted he will only return to F1 if it is in a position that gives him the opportunity to \u201cdrive difference\u201d at a squad.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Horner held the team principal role at Red Bull for over 20 years before he was suddenly dismissed just days after the 2025 British Grand Prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The 52-year-old has been linked to various positions in F1 ever since his exit, but had to serve a period of gardening leave to stop him from joining a new team straight away.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Alpine, Aston Martin and Ferrari have been among those Horner has been linked with since his exit from Red Bull.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Now free to take up any opportunity available to him, Horner stated it was important he was not left unable to work for too long.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery week there\u2019s somebody speculating that I\u2019m going somewhere,\u201d\u00a0Horner told The Times. \u201cIt\u2019s flattering that people still talk about you.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s inevitable that conversations happen, but until very recently, I\u2019ve not been able to do anything [on gardening leave].\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m now technically a free agent \u2014 which was always important to me when I left Red Bull, not to be locked down for too long a period.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
As well as being rumoured to take on a role at an existing team, Horner has also been linked with having a key position at a potential 12th team, with Chinese manufacturer BYD reportedly holding talks with F1 over joining the grid.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Horner insisted that should he return to the sport, it would be in a capacity bigger than the duties he had as team principal at Red Bull.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no interest in just being a number in a machine,\u201d\u00a0he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve more than demonstrated what I\u2019m capable of doing, and if I go back, it would only be in a position where you were empowered to make a change, to drive difference, to win.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that I would become very frustrated very quickly doing anything else. If you can\u2019t do it to win, why bother?\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Horner has insisted he will only return to F1 if it is in a position that gives…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-789654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789654","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=789654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}