Shortly after his release at Red Bull as team boss, speculation increased that Christian Horner could soon return to Formula 1 as team leader from Alpine. RTL expert Christian Danner explains in an interview with Sport.de why he does not believe in this fast comeback of the 51-year-old.
“Theoretically, this is possible and was also played through in different variants in the press. But whether that is what Horner wants, i.e. as a team boss, only with a much worse team, I think it was unlikely,” said the longstanding RTL-Expert Christian Danner in Zandvoort before the race weekend.
In conversation with sport.de He added why he does not believe in Christian Horner’s commitment to Alpine, which is currently taking tenth and thus last place in the design classification.
“Horner wants to have a different status when he had it at Red Bull. Means: He wants to become a shareholder in a team and wants to develop politically at other heights, not only take care of the racing day business and in the end Flavio Briatore decides,” said Danner about the British, who steered the fateful fortunes of the Red Bull team in Formula 1.
As a shareholder, Horner was never considered at the Red Bull team. Unlike his long -time adversary Toto Wolff, for example, at Mercedes. According to Danner, this is also a reason that the two have had open antipathia for each other in recent years.
“These animosities, this aversion, both of which have and maintain and maintain each other, is credible. And it is certainly based on the fact that Horner was and is not yet at a Toto level in one area: he does not belong to a third of a Formula 1 team,” said the 67-year-old about the relationship between Horner and Wolff, which has been considered to be damaged for a long time.
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Mekies could stay with Red Bull longer
As a successor to Christian Horner, Laurent Mekies was known to be installed at Red Bull as the new team boss. Danner expects the 48-year-old Frenchman to be more than just an interim solution for the racing team around the four-time world champion Max Verstappen.
“I think it is only formally an interim solution. Mekies is a very good choice, a very good solution. He can, do it, know how to do it. He is an tidy, technically outstanded and very experienced man. Mekies is not mekies that you can swim in the cold. Looks back in Formula 1.