{"id":350759,"date":"2025-12-17T09:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350759\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T09:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:09:10","slug":"christian-horner-in-talks-with-f1-team-over-sensational-return-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350759\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Horner in talks with F1 team over sensational return &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Horner is still seeking a return to the F1 grid in the near future and is now actively engaged in talks with one team in particular, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>Horner, the long-time team principal at Red Bull, was dismissed from his position at the Milton Keynes-based earlier in the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Briton has since negotiated his exit terms for the team and is now serving a period of gardening leave, which will not expire until after the 2026 season gets underway.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Martin was heavily linked as a destination for Horner before team owner Lawrence Stroll made it clear to the team that <a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/aston-martin-clarify-christian-horner-decision-after-f1-links\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the former Red Bull boss would not be joining.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>De Telegraaf now reports that Horner is eyeing up a position at Alpine with the support of a group of investors.<\/p>\n<p>Otro Capital currently holds 24 per cent of the shares at Alpine, but it is speculated that it is exploring the possibility of selling those shares.<\/p>\n<p>Several celebrities, including Anthony Joshua and Rory McIlroy are affiliated with Alpine through Otro Capital&#8217;s stake in the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Should the equity firm be looking to sell its Alpine shares, it presents an opportunity for Horner to get back into F1.<\/p>\n<p>It would see Horner work alongside Flavio Briatore, who returned to the Enstone-based squad last year in a management position.<\/p>\n<p>De Telegraaf wrote that Horner did not decline that talks were being held with Alpine but that he refused to comment further.<\/p>\n<p>Alpine endured a challenging F1 season this year as it struggled for pace across the campaign en route to finishing at the bottom of the constructors&#8217; standings.<\/p>\n<p>Next year, it will enter the season running Mercedes power units after making the decision to cease its own engine department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Horner is still seeking a return to the F1 grid in the near future and is now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-350759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-calendar","13":"tag-f1-live","14":"tag-f1-results","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-ferrari","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-lewis-hamilton","20":"tag-max-verstappen","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350759","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=350759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}