Christian Horner has been sacked as Red Bull team principal after 20 years in the role. <\/b><\/p>\n
The 51-year-old has been in charge of the Formula 1 team since its inception in 2005, leading them to eight drivers’ championship and six constructors’ championship titles.<\/p>\n
The dismissal follows months of declining form for the team and internal disputes at the highest level. It also comes 17 months after Horner was accused of sexual harassment<\/a> and coercive, controlling behaviour by a female employee.<\/p>\n Horner was twice cleared of the claims, firstly after an internal investigation<\/a> conducted by a lawyer, then by another lawyer who dismissed the complainant’s appeal.<\/a><\/p>\n “Red Bull has released Christian Horner from his operational duties with effect from today,” the team’s parent company, Red Bull GmBH, said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n While Horner has been removed from his role, it has not been made clear if he has formally departed the company, or if a settlement or severance is yet in place.<\/p>\n The Englishman will be replaced as team principal and chief executive of Red Bull Racing by Laurent Mekies, who has been promoted from second team Racing Bulls.<\/p>\n The 48-year-old Frenchman had been in the role since the start of the 2024 season and was previously racing director for Ferrari.<\/p>\n Englishman Alan Permane, 58, has been promoted to team principal of Racing Bulls from his position as racing director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Horner has been sacked as Red Bull team principal after 20 years in the role. The 51-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-250846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}