{"id":125817,"date":"2025-09-09T19:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125817\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:05:04","slug":"christian-horners-eye-opening-leaked-text-after-red-bull-sacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125817\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Horner&#8217;s eye-opening leaked text after Red Bull sacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Christian Horner has made his feelings on Red Bull clear after a text was\u00a0leaked following his Formula 1 sacking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 51-year-old who lives near Banbury\u00a0was relieved of his Red Bull team principal role last month after 20 years of service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mr Horner had been team principal at Red Bull since 2005, overseeing eight drivers\u2019 world championships and six constructors\u2019 titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25452285.beyonce-buying-algae-filled-lake-derelict-shack-cotswolds\/?rel=cl_mra\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Beyonc\u00e9 buying &#039;algae-filled lake and derelict shack&#039; in Cotswolds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Beyonc\u00e9 buying &#8216;algae-filled lake and derelict shack&#8217; in Cotswolds<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Christian Horner and his wife Geri Halliwell-Horner live on the Oxfordshire border. (Image: Bradley Collyer \/ PA Wire)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Formula 1 star resides in a \u00a39.2m mansion with his wife, Geri Halliwell-Horner, on the Oxfordshire border with Northamptonshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Now, Mr Horner has made his feelings clear in an apparent &#8220;leaked&#8221; text shared by Martin Brundle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The former Red Bull team boss reached out to the Sky Sports presenter during the Italian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25451886.victoria-beckham-reunites-brooklyn-beckham-amid-family-feud\/?rel=cl_mra\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Victoria Beckham reunites with Brooklyn Beckham amid family feud;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Victoria Beckham reunites with Brooklyn Beckham amid family feud<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cA message from Christian Horner here, actually,\u201d Mr Brundle said live on Sky F1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSaying, \u2018This was our worst race last year. We had the wrong downforce level,\u2019 and how hard the team have worked on that package and done a great job. Of course, they\u2019ve turned it around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Max Verstappen&#8217;s masterclass helped claim both his and Red Bull\u2019s first grand prix win since Imola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The performance evidently left the departed Mr Horner impressed, with the Formula 1 star pointing out that Monza was previously Red Bull\u2019s \u201cworst race\u201d in 2024, when he was in charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Horner has made his feelings on Red Bull clear after a text was\u00a0leaked following his Formula 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6539,1687,372,6537,59614,42985,3803,42984,371,101,12197,56,54,55,5932],"class_list":["post-125817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-christian-horner","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-geri-halliwell-horner","tag-mr-horner","tag-red-bull","tag-red-bull-gmbh","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-sports","tag-team-principal","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-victoria-beckham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125817","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=125817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}