{"id":433217,"date":"2026-01-25T23:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T23:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/433217\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T23:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T23:49:09","slug":"ex-red-bull-boss-horner-interested-in-buying-minority-stake-of-alpine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/433217\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Red Bull boss Horner interested in buying minority stake of Alpine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 The Alpine <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/formula-one\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a> team confirmed Sunday that <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/christian-horner-red-bull-16a0990f2c5ead4f1cffe9197c28da38\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ex-Red Bull boss Christian Horner<\/a> is among the interested parties in buying a minority stake in the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is no secret that Otro Capital has held preliminary talks to sell its stake in the team,\u201d Alpine said in a statement. \u201c\u2060The team is regularly approached and contacted from potential investors, particularly given Otro Capital declared exploratory talks have taken place. One of those parties to express an interest is a group of investors, which also includes Christian Horner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Horner was fired by Red Bull in July to end a 20-year stint that included eight F1 drivers\u2019 titles but also more recent turmoil that rocked the team on and off the track.<\/p>\n<p>Alpine has <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/alpine-mercedes-renault-f1-engines-fdef3316b767300df340c4af0c17c1f0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">switched to Mercedes engines<\/a> for a new era of F1 regulations this year.<\/p>\n<p>Alpine finished last in the constructors\u2019 standings last year.<\/p>\n<p>Preseason testing opens in Barcelona on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP auto racing: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/auto-racing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/auto-racing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 The Alpine Formula 1 team confirmed Sunday that ex-Red Bull boss Christian Horner is among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-433217","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\/433217","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=433217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}