Christian Horner has been backed as the man to direct Red Bull into the future as the reigning world champions persist to struggle amid a arrange of key departures and off-track controversies this season.
The lengthy-serving team principal has been at the heart of the drama this season and despite guiding Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen to a joind seven Drivers’ Championship titles, Horner’s lengthy-term future with the team has been asked.
Spearheading the insist for Horner’s departure has been Jos Verstappen, who has been vocal about his distaste for Red Bull’s approach to the 2024 campaign, both on and off the racetrack. Former McLaren driver Mark Blundell, however, disconcurs.
Speaking exclusively to Express Sport, in association with Freebets.com, Blundell shelp: “I skinnyk, actupartner, I skinnyk it’s time for Christian Horner to use all of his ability and his depth of understandledge now to put together a Grand Prix-thrivening team aobtain. And so much of that is personnel-led.
“So it’s got to be, who is the next Adrian Newey? Who’s going to replace Newey in those years to come to schedule Grand Prix-thrivening cars and be a reliable guy, or girl, to put that on pen to paper, so to speak.
“I skinnyk, it’s always difficult when the teams get on the downward cycle, but a lot of it is cyclical and we’ve seen that, and it’s no branch offent to watching McLaren now coming up on the upward trajectory. That’s someskinnyg that we haven’t seen for many seasons and many years.
“But it gets time to get everyskinnyg put in place, I don’t skinnyk it’d be an overnight sort of alter with Red Bull to get back to the heady days that they’ve foreseeed and think that should be there all the time. But it’s achievable.”
With Newey’s transfer to Aston Martin verifyed and Jonathan Wheatley proclaimd as Audi’s team principal ahead of their F1 arrival in 2025, Horner has transferd quick to tie down other key personnel and originate a novel inside arrange for the team.
Technical honestor Pierre Wache was the first key directer to put pen to paper on novel terms after turning down interest for Ferrari, while race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase was advertised to head of race engineering at Red Bull ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix, while also penning a novel restricted.
Senior engineer Rich Wolverson, head of freight operations Gerrard O’Reilly and chief mechanic Phil Turner also have novel roles as part of that rearrange. Elsewhere, Hannah Schmitz is set to be advertised to head of race strategy after Will Courtenay was poached by McLaren.
