{"id":213887,"date":"2025-10-20T20:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/213887\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T20:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:11:07","slug":"f1-driver-takes-brutal-swipe-at-expired-christian-horner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/213887\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 Driver takes brutal swipe at &#8216;expired&#8217; Christian Horner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The 51-year-old resides in a \u00a39.2m mansion with his Spice Girl wife Geri Halliwell-Horner in the 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  He 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\/25551257.lewis-hamilton-ferrari-distracted-christian-horner\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"omni-lead-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari &#8216;distracted&#8217; by Christian Horner rumours<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Christian Horner.(Image: David Davies \/ PA Wire)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Now, writing in his column for De Telegraaf, Christijan Albers has taken a brutal swipe at Mr Horner following his exit from Red Bull.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The former F1 driver said: &#8220;Horner has played a very important role at Red Bull over all these years and achieved a lot, but everyone has their expiration date. You&#8217;re seeing that now.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It&#8217;s actually a shame for Red Bull that it took so much time, literally. Because it&#8217;s no secret that many people wanted to get rid of him at the beginning of 2024.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Whatever happened with the woman in question, who accused him, as a team principal and CEO, you shouldn&#8217;t be in that position.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25547128.f1-ferrari-make-final-decision-hiring-christian-horner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ferrari make final decision on hiring Christian Horner after sack<\/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  Moving onto the sizable payout Mr Horner received, Mr Albers added: &#8220;As a former driver, I find it absolutely ridiculous that he&#8217;s getting such a huge severance package of around 60 million euros.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;As a driver, you always have performance clauses in your contract. if you don&#8217;t perform, you can go.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWith all the success he&#8217;s achieved, he lost his way somewhere, lost focus, and nearly caused Red Bull to lose its top-team status only to be bought off.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I understand that Red Bull wants to get everything done as quickly as possible, but it&#8217;s actually ridiculous that you&#8217;re being rewarded for it in this way, so to speak.\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 51-year-old resides in a \u00a39.2m mansion with his Spice Girl wife Geri Halliwell-Horner in the village of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-213887","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\/213887","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=213887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}