Former F1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya has suggested Red Bull could have blocked Christian Horner’s route back to the sport following his dismissal from the team.<\/p>\n
Red Bull confirmed last month that Horner had left his role as team principal following 20 years in charge.<\/p>\n
As he was still under contract, Horner entered negotiations with Red Bull to discuss the terms of his termination, the details of which have not been disclosed.<\/p>\n
The Briton, who is one of the most successful F1 team principals in the sport’s history, is now believed to be serving a period of gardening leave which prevents him from immediately linking up with a rival team.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the MontoyAS podcast, Montoya suggested that the period could extend for the rest of his working career.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Christian has the chance, he\u2019ll come back,\u201d he said. \u201cWhether he wants to or not, we don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith everything that happened and the payout Red Bull must have given him, he\u2019s financially set.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe part of the deal was that he can\u2019t work in F1 again? That\u2019s the only thing that would stop him.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, should Horner have the opportunity to return to F1, Montoya does not see the 51-year-old having trouble finding a new role.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if I were running a team like Aston Martin, Cadillac, Alpine, Haas, I\u2019d hire him in two seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former F1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya has suggested Red Bull could have blocked Christian Horner’s route back to…\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-90080","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\/90080","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=90080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90080\/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=90080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}