{"id":124030,"date":"2025-09-09T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/124030\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T00:56:08","slug":"jeremy-clarkson-gives-verdict-on-christian-horner-sacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/124030\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Clarkson gives verdict on Christian Horner sacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The 51-year-old who lives near Banbury\u00a0was relieved of his Red Bull team principal role last month after 20 years of service.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Early in July,\u00a0a statement from Red Bull GmbH read: \u201cRed Bull has released Christian Horner from his operational duties with effect from today (Wednesday, July 9) and has appointed Laurent Mekies as CEO of Red Bull Racing.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Horner had been team principal at Red Bull since 2005, overseeing eight drivers\u2019 world championships and six constructors\u2019 titles.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotswoldjournal.co.uk\/news\/25448776.beyonce-gets-planning-permission-build-spectacular-cotswolds-estate\/?rel=cl_mra\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beyonc\u00e9 &#8216;gets planning permission&#8217; to build &#8216;spectacular Cotswolds estate&#8217;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Christian Horner has left Red Bull in Formula 1.\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Christian Horner has left Red Bull in Formula 1. (Image: Bradley Collyer \/ PA)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Formula 1 star resides in a \u00a39.2m mansion with his wife, Geri Halliwell-Horner, on the Oxfordshire border with Northamptonshire.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Clarkson also lives in the area, having owned Chadlington&#8217;s Diddly Squat Farm since 2008 and The Farmer&#8217;s Dog pub since 2024.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Reacting to the news of Mr Horner&#8217;s dismissal, the 65-year-old gave his thoughts on what the former F1 team principal&#8217;s future could hold.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe clever money is saying he\u2019ll go to Alpine,\u201d Clarkson wrote about Horner in his column for The Sun.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25447617.harry-potters-emma-watson-teases-return-acting-away-oxford-university\/?rel=cl_mra\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Potter&#8217;s Emma Watson teases return to acting away from Oxford University<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond.\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. (Image: Ian West \/ PA Wire)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cBut next year they will have Mercedes engines. Which means Christian would have to work with Silver Arrows boss Toto Wolff.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cAnd as those two really don\u2019t get on, I can\u2019t see that happening.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Clarkson is currently filming the fifth series of Clarkson&#8217;s Farm in Oxfordshire after series four was released across May and June this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is expected that the brand new episodes will be released on Prime Video\u00a0at some point in 2026, with post-production still to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 51-year-old who lives near Banbury\u00a0was relieved of his Red Bull team principal role last month after 20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-124030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}