Horner: “I won’t come back for anything, but only for something I can win”

The farewell (for now) to F1 It was last July when Christian Horner, Red Bull’s Team Principal for twenty years, was fired from the Milton Keynes company, definitively leaving the world of Formula 1. Since then, as the months passed, the 52-year-old Briton increasingly felt the desire and need to return to the Circus, where he had contributed to the victory of eight Drivers’ and six Constructors’ world titles, all at Red Bull. The desire to return A strong desire that Horner expressed at the Dublin Motor Show, highlighting a personal plan to return to F1 by achieving certain goals: “I feel like I have some unfinished business in Formula 1 – he commented publicly for the first time after his dismissal – it didn’t end the way I would have liked, but I won’t come back for anything. I’ll only come back for something that I can win. I don’t want to go back to the paddock if I don’t have something to do. I miss the sport, I miss the people, I miss it the team I built. I spent 21 incredible years in Formula 1. I have had a fantastic journey, I have won many races, championships and I have worked with amazing drivers, engineers and partners. I would like to stop my career now. Alpine, but not only In recent weeks, Horner has been linked several times to a team like Alpine for his actual return, but there have also been rumors, previously, about possible negotiations with other teams: “The fascinating thing is that I left Red Bull on July 8, and it’s the first time I’ve spoken to anyone. For the media I think I went to every single Formula 1 team, from the back of the grid, to the middle of the grid, up to the first position. There seems to be a sort of appetite like, ‘What am I going to do? Where am I going to go?’. The reality is that I can’t do anything until spring anyway.” The rivalry with Wolff In conclusion, Horner focused on Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff, with whom a great rivalry has arisen in recent years: “Many people have benefited greatly from the rivalry I had with him. I have enormous respect for him. He has had extraordinary success. He has won a lot. He is very brilliant. We are simply different people, equally competitive, simply different. Sport is boring if everyone is friendly and loves each other. There has to be a rivalry that arouses real interest. The worst thing is if everyone they are too kind and friendly.”