{"id":190347,"date":"2025-10-10T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190347\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:40:07","slug":"max-verstappen-breaks-silence-on-christian-horner-sacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190347\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen breaks silence on Christian Horner sacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Formula 1 star resides in a \u00a39.2m mansion with his Spice Girl wife in the Northamptonshire village of Marston Saint Lawrence, near Banbury.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Horner was relieved of his Red Bull team principal role last month after 20 years of service, seeing him pocket a reported \u00a380 million payout in the process.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 51-year-old 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: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25518430.christian-horner-signs-new-f1-team-red-bull-saga\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Top Gear publishes satire on Christian Horner F1 team move<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Christian Horner.(Image: Bradley Collyer \/ PA)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Now, his former driver, Mr Verstappen, has spoken to Channel 4 about the change of approach from his old boss to his new one in Laurent Mekies.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt\u2019s been working well so far,&#8221; the F1 driver replied.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cNow, you\u2019re not going to reinvent the whole car when you just joined with the team, and I think Laurent has always been very honest about what he has done, and I like that.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He\u2019s just, I would say, one of the guys, we get on, yeah, very well.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25487626.christian-horner-geri-halliwell-make-80m-life-decision\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Christian Horner and Geri Halliwell make \u00a380m life decision<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n    Be the first to know with Oxford Mail! \ud83d\udcf1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udca1 Our flash sale brings the latest local happenings directly to you. Take advantage of our exclusive offer of over 40 per cent off an annual subscription.<br \/>Your community&#8217;s stories await. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SpecialOffer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#SpecialOffer<\/a> \ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eP825WLl9z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/eP825WLl9z<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uFugf53nGk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/uFugf53nGk<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    \u2014 Oxford Mail (@TheOxfordMail) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOxfordMail\/status\/1972936850852757613?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">September 30, 2025<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cBut at the same time, also, before, with Christian at the helm, we achieved so many amazing things together.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;And honestly, I think the feeling that we had as a team, and how emotional everything was in \u201921, winning that championship, that is something that you will remember forever, having lived throughout that whole season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cAnd, yeah, it\u2019s a different strategy now in the team. And I enjoy working with Laurent, and I\u2019m also very excited for the coming years.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Formula 1 star resides in a \u00a39.2m mansion with his Spice Girl wife in the Northamptonshire village&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-190347","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\/190347","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=190347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}