{"id":219765,"date":"2025-10-23T07:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T07:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219765\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T07:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T07:31:38","slug":"christian-horner-plotting-formula-1-comeback-with-1-5b-takeover-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219765\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Horner &#8216;plotting Formula 1 comeback with \u00a31.5b takeover bid&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Christian Horner is reportedly planning a Formula 1 comeback with a \u00a31.5b bid after his departure from Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He had been team principal there 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: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25559945.inside-sir-david-beckhams-friendship-hollywood-director-cotswolds\/?ref=ed_recent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Inside Sir David Beckham&#039;s friendship with Hollywood director in Cotswolds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Inside Sir David Beckham&#8217;s friendship with Hollywood director in Cotswolds<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Image: David Davies\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Now, in a new report from The Times, it is said that the former Red Bull man could make a &#8220;dramatic return&#8221; to the paddock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This would see him either fronting a new or purchased team valued at more than \u00a31.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The national newspaper adds that Mr Horner has been approached by a group of wealthy investors who are \u201ceager to collaborate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25560558.best-secondary-school-oxfordshire-revealed\/?ref=ed_recent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The best secondary school in Oxfordshire revealed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The best secondary school in Oxfordshire revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This would give him the potential funding he would need to acquire a team with reports, adding that he does not want to take on another team-principal role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Instead, he prefers the idea of owning a team, and he could be back in the paddock as early as April 2026 after the settlement with Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Times mentions that neither FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem nor F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali would stand in the way of a return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201c[Mr Horner] could come back with more power than ever before,\u201d said the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Horner is reportedly planning a Formula 1 comeback with a \u00a31.5b bid after his departure from Red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6539,1687,372,6537,59614,3803,101,12197,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-219765","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-red-bull","tag-sports","tag-team-principal","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219765","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=219765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}