{"id":940523,"date":"2026-10-25T15:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/940523\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:28:12","slug":"christian-horner-f1-heavyweight-speaks-after-career-came-to-crashing-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/940523\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Horner: F1 heavyweight speaks after career came to crashing halt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Formula 1 \u2013 and there\u2019s something like 76 million tuning in to watch grand prix weekends \u2013 are gearing up for another titanic battle on Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p>This one will be fought out in Austin, Texas, in front of a record-breaking crowd.<\/p>\n<p>But missing the spectacle is F1 heavyweight, Christian Horner. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1c209b258ad3819391d7f45093db92cce519200d181ae0a69e08892f6303584b.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Faced with much intrigue of why he was sacked, Christian Horner has stayed largely silent \u2013 until now.\u00a060 Minutes<\/p>\n<p>For 20 years he was the team principal of Red Bull, transforming the energy drinks company into a motor racing juggernaut. <\/p>\n<p>In that time, he\u2019s worked with great drivers in Australia\u2019s Mark Webber and Daniel Ricciardo and most recently the extraordinary Dutchman, Max Verstappen. <\/p>\n<p>But then 15 months ago his high-octane career came to a sudden crashing halt.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with much intrigue of why he was sacked, Horner has stayed largely silent \u2013 until now.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full story on <a href=\"https:\/\/9now.app.link\/mdYiu6JgWab\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\">9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans of Formula 1 \u2013 and there\u2019s something like 76 million tuning in to watch grand prix weekends&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-940523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940523","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=940523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}