The significant management overhaul at Red Bull that led to Christian Horner (main image) and Helmut Marko departing the team this year is not a risk for the future, according to Oliver Mintzlaff.<\/p>\n
Horner was removed from his position as team principal and CEO of the Formula 1 team in July, while Marko\u2019s departure was confirmed after the final race of the season. The pair had been involved since Red Bull first entered F1 two decades ago, but Mintzlaff \u2013 who is CEO of corporate projects and new investments at Red Bull GmbH \u2013 says change at the top was required.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t call [sacking Horner] a risk, because we were 100% behind this measure,\u201d Mintzlaff told De Telegraaf. \u201cWe knew we had to do something. I\u2019m not a so-called hire-and-fire manager, someone who fires people just like that.<\/p>\n
\u201cChristian has a great track record with the team and has achieved a lot of success. Everyone here in the company, myself included, appreciates him for what he has done. But this is also part of being a professional organization. You can\u2019t keep relying on history and we felt it was time to turn the page and start a new chapter. It wasn\u2019t an easy decision, but we didn\u2019t rush into it either.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mintzlaff rarely speaks publicly about the F1 team, and while distancing himself from comments attributed to Marko \u2013 who was quoted in another Dutch publication, De Limburger, as claiming \u201cHorner was lying about all sorts of things\u201d \u2013 he said the end of such a spell of managerial stability should not be seen as a negative.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose words about Christian are Helmut\u2019s responsibility,” he said. “I can\u2019t say anything negative about Christian, simply because he has meant a lot to Red Bull. But there always comes a time when things aren\u2019t going well and then, as a company, you have to make a decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you going to give someone more time, or is it time for a new leader? We felt it was time for a change. Christian and Helmut have worked together wonderfully for years, since the start in 2005, so we\u2019re talking about more than 20 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cGive me a few examples of other large sports organizations where the leadership team has remained the same for so long. So you can view it very negatively that they are both gone now. But I would say that it is unique that they have been here together for so long and achieved so much. Sometimes you just need a change to shake things up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The significant management overhaul at Red Bull that led to Christian Horner (main image) and Helmut Marko departing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-370358","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-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370358","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=370358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}