Christian Horner has been sacked as Red Bull team principal following the British Grand Prix; Laurent Mekies, who was in charge of Racing Bulls, will replace Horner with immediate effect; watch the Belgian GP live on Sky Sports from July 25-27
  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    22 hours ago

    Looks like speculation’s back on the menu, boys!

    Due to…

    • more legal challenges incoming?
    • worse performance for the past year?
    • an attempt to halt the brain drain from Red Bull?
    • Max wanted him out, and they’re now complying what with Merc courting him so hard?
    • Red Bull lost Max to Merc, and Red Bull high ups are unhappy with Horner over it?
    • their engines for next season aren’t looking good?
    • a combination of factors above?

    Tbh I don’t think it’d be down to performance alone. Red Bull has had down periods multiple times in the past 20 years.

    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
      13·
      22 hours ago

      When they’ve been down it was before Mateschitz passed. What he said was the law and he had the people he wanted in the positions he wanted. After that there were many factions fighting and trying to make the others look bad. Cue Horniers txt messages, Max’s team threatening to leave, Marko looking like he’d be fired, and Newey leaving for money when he didn’t get his way. The smart technical folks saw the infighting and jumped ship to teams where they could step up in their career