{"id":495598,"date":"2025-09-22T07:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495598"},"modified":"2025-09-22T07:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:15:16","slug":"horner-officially-leaves-red-bull-eyes-formula-1-return","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/horner-officially-leaves-red-bull-eyes-formula-1-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Horner officially leaves Red Bull, eyes Formula 1 return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Horner will be able to be employed by a team in Formula 1 as soon as the spring next year after finalizing a payout with Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-team boss and CEO was &#8220;relieved of operational duties&#8221; by the parent company of the racing team, 2 days after the British GP during the summer, ending a 20-year career with Red Bull that began at its inception in F1.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is Christian Horner&#39;s final day at Red Bull after 20 years at the team&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The end of an era \ud83e\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ab3gyHmlIM\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ab3gyHmlIM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Autosport (@autosport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/autosport\/status\/1970083710960566433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The dismissal of Christian shocked everybody when it happened, because he had a deal until 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Horner agreed to take less money from what the full contractual payout would have been because, as a result, he would be able to return to Formula 1 as early as spring 2026. The former CEO of one of the best teams in the F1 will receive around 100 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>With him at the helm of the team, Red Bull triumphed with 8 pilots\u2019 and 6 constructors&#8217; championships in 2 different periods of supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Red Bull officially revealed that Horner no longer works for the team.<\/p>\n<p>Before being dismissed, Christian had been linked with Ferrari, but that is no longer an option after they extended Fred Vasseur&#8217;s deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Horner will be able to be employed by a team in Formula 1 as soon as the spring next year after finalizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432846,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18595,16922],"news_category":[16921,16715],"gn_keywords":[18669,17958],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Christian wants to work again in the F1 as soon as possible.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495599,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495598\/revisions\/495599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495598"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495598"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}