Former Red Bull F1 driver Robert Doornbos has backed Christian Horner to make a comeback to the sport with a shareholding role.<\/p>\n
Red Bull announced last month it had parted ways with Horner, ending the Briton’s 20-year stint in the team principal position.<\/p>\n
Laurent Mekies was named as Horner’s successor, commencing a new era for the squad under fresh leadership.<\/p>\n
But as Horner sits as one of the most successful figures in the sport’s history, the 51-year-old is widely expected to make a return – a situation backed by Doornbos.<\/p>\n
“Knowing Christian, yes,” Doornbos told with Motorsport.com when asked if he expects to see Horner in the F1 paddock again.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet’s not forget, he’s incredibly young. He already has 20 years of experience, but he’s still only 51.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c20 years of experience as an F1 team principal and CEO of one of the world’s largest brands, in both automotive and marketing – his successes speak for themselves.”<\/p>\n
Doornbos has suggested Horner could look to have a team ownership role as well as having day-to-day involvement in the team, akin to Toto Wolff’s position at Mercedes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was the only thing missing,” he said. “What Lawrence Stroll [at Aston Martin] or Toto Wolff have. You simply want to be a shareholder.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Dutchman highlighted one team who could provide Horner the opportunity to obtain such a position.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly Alpine, if I go down the list,” Doornbos stated. “That would be a team that, at some point, is in such dire straits and says, ‘We’re at a loss’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFlavio [Briatore] isn’t going to do it forever. Christian [could] say, ‘I like a project like that, I’ll take it on, and I want shares, then we’ll make it a huge success again’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are also bright minds there who have been successful in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Red Bull F1 driver Robert Doornbos has backed Christian Horner to make a comeback to the sport…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3007,1687,3010,3008,3011,3009,831,372,6537,832,3006,3005,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-64004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64004","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=64004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}