{"id":432938,"date":"2026-01-25T20:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432938\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T20:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:26:09","slug":"alpine-christian-horner-part-of-group-interested-in-buying-into-french-f1-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432938\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpine: Christian Horner part of group interested in buying into French F1 team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, financial magazine Forbes estimated Ferrari as F1’s most valuable team, external<\/a> at $6.5bn (\u00a34.8bn), Mercedes second at $6bn (\u00a34.4m). The ranking of the 10 teams in F1 last year placed Alpine seventh at $2.45bn<\/p>\n

Horner, who led Red Bull to eight drivers’ titles and six constructors’ championships in 20 years in charge, has not spoken publicly since losing his position at Red Bull.<\/p>\n

But he has made it clear privately to several senior F1 insiders that if he returns he wants full control of a team, a role senior to that of team principal and a significant shareholding.<\/p>\n

A buy-in to Alpine could not satisfy those requirements, unless Renault was to relinquish its majority shareholding.<\/p>\n

He was sacked by Red Bull after a tumultuous two years in which he was accused of sexual harassment and coercive, controlling behaviour by a female employee and a slump in form for the team that bosses felt would not be recovered with him in charge.<\/p>\n

Horner always denied the allegations and two internal Red Bull investigations dismissed them.<\/p>\n

During 2024, three key employees decided to leave Red Bull, chief technical officer Adrian Newey, sporting director Jonathan Wheatley and head of strategy Will Courtenay.<\/p>\n

Following his departure and replacement by Frenchman Laurent Mekies, Red Bull’s form recovered and Max Verstappen mounted a late assault on the 2025 drivers’ title, missing out to McLaren’s Lando Norris by just two points at the end of the season.<\/p>\n

Verstappen told BBC Sport in an interview at the final race of last season that he “always had a great relationship with Christian and still to this day, a lot of people, we appreciate what he has done for the team”.<\/p>\n

He added: “When sometimes a team has been functioning for a very long time, very well, and then at one point it’s not, and there’s not really also a clear direction out of it, sometimes management makes a big change.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, financial magazine Forbes estimated Ferrari as F1’s most valuable team, external at $6.5bn (\u00a34.8bn), Mercedes second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-432938","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\/432938","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=432938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}