Red Bull may already have a new team boss in the next race.
Red Bull team manager Christian Horner is about to be fired in two weeks, The F1 Insider site news.
The site’s “well-informed sources” say that Horner would no longer participate in the next round of the season in Australia.
Also Motorsport-Total investigation shows that the team manager is close to losing his job. Bildin the interviewed Red Bull representative, on the other hand, denies the claims.
The bigwigs of Red Bull’s parent company are said to be discussing Horner’s fate on Sunday in Dubai. The CEOs Oliver Mintzlaff and Franz Watzlawick and belonging to the owner ladder Chalerm Yoovidhya.
The parent company’s Watzlawick hasn’t made much of an appearance on the F1 side before, so the meeting is also exceptional in that respect.
Watzlawick is in charge of Red Bull’s energy drink sales, which may suffer due to the allegations surrounding Horner. According to Motorsport-Total, this worries the company.
F1-Insider writes that Red Bull is also afraid that Horner will take action due to the harassment investigation conducted against him. According to the site, the investigation may not have been as objective as it was initially thought.
Christian Horner is given the starting passes. EPA / AOP