Former F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone has revealed that he tried to convince Christian Horner to take up a role at Ferrari following his departure from Red Bull.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Horner parted ways with the Milton Keynes-based squad last summer, bringing an end to his 20-year tenure as team principal.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Briton has since completed a period of gardening leave and is free to return to the sport in any capacity available to him.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, Ecclestone believes Horner faces a difficult situation regardless of where he eventually ends up.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cChristian’s in a difficult position anyway,\u201d Ecclestone told select media including RacingNews365.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWherever he goes, if he doesn’t succeed, people will say, ‘Ah, Christian, you were very good when you were with Red Bull with big budgets’ and things like that.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
‘Now you’re not winning because of that’ or something.’ So it’s difficult for him.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
In the months following Horner\u2019s departure from the squad, he was linked with a number of potential projects, including Ferrari and Aston Martin.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
More recently, a more realistic opportunity has emerged at Alpine, with reports suggesting Horner was putting together a consortium of investors to purchase Otro Capital\u2019s 24 per cent stake in the team.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
But Ecclestone has stated that he was keen to see Horner make his way to Ferrari.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI speak to him quite a bit,\u201d Ecclestone revealed. \u201cEarly on, I was trying to convince him to try and be at Ferrari.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
When asked where he believes Horner will end up, Ecclestone replied: \u201cNo idea.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone has revealed that he tried to convince Christian Horner to take up a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766694,"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":["post-766693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766693","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=766693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}