{"id":201112,"date":"2025-10-09T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/201112\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:38:10","slug":"williams-f1-boss-open-to-talks-with-christian-horner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/201112\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams F1 Boss Open to Talks With Christian Horner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Williams Racing<\/a> Formula One<\/a> team principal James Vowles has revealed that he is open to talks with former Red Bull Racing<\/a> chief Christian Horner<\/a>, if he were approached by him. Horner’s Red Bull ouster after the British Grand Prix sent shockwaves across F1, and since then, he has been linked to several teams for a potential 2026 return. <\/p>\n

Newsweek Sports<\/a> recently reported how Horner walked away with a severance package worth around $100 million and that he will be allowed to return to F1 mid-next year. His reported links with Alpine, Cadillac F1, and Haas have made news, but there has been no sign of talks advancing to the next level. <\/p>\n

Horner is interested in returning to the sport in the capacity of a team owner and not as a manager. Thus, a future partnership with teams eager for more capital cannot be ruled out, although Horner’s reported preference to control team operations could get in the way. When Vowles was asked during the press conference in Singapore if he was approached by Horner, he said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cNo. Simple.”<\/p>\n

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However, Vowles was not ruling out a discussion with Horner in case he was approached by the former Red Bull boss. He said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you should always welcome a conversation. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no point closing the door.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Vowles did make it clear that as of now, he does not want to make changes to the team’s structure. He said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very happy with the structure that we have, and it\u2019s working. So I don\u2019t see any reason to make any changes to that.”<\/p>\n

The speculation around Horner’s 2026 F1 return has been gaining traction, and according to Sky Sports F1’s Craig Slater, several business entities have been in touch with Horner who seek to enter the world of premier class racing. He said:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I do know is a lot of big commercial entities, and we\u2019re talking about blue-chip companies, sovereign wealth funds, big venture capital groups, have already been in touch with Christian Horner.<\/p>\n

\u201cGroups which want to get into F1 and Horner will now assess all these options. There are two ways of getting into F1 as a stakeholder: one is by buying a team, and then this other potential option of founding what would be the 12th and final team, which the current regulations allow for within the sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is a cheaper way.\u00a0Cadillac\u00a0have paid maybe half a billion pounds for certification to get on board. Yes, they\u2019ll have to build up all the infrastructure, but it\u2019s going to cost a minimum of a billion and a half to two billion pounds to buy an existing team.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgainst that, there\u2019s always talk about\u00a0Alpine\u00a0perhaps diluting the stake. Could he buy a chunk of that business, perhaps with some venture capitalists?\u00a0Audi\u00a0bought the\u00a0Sauber\u00a0team; might they want to hive off a share of that?\u00a0There\u2019s been talk around that as well, so let\u2019s see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williams Racing Formula One team principal James Vowles has revealed that he is open to talks with former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,580,577,582,82],"class_list":["post-201112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula-one","tag-formula1","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}