RedBull certainly was able to MAXimize its results on specific tracks I expect them to be strong in SIN overall but not take the win. The 2 recent races allowed us some variety as we wait for the new regs etc. Good to watch overall even with the dull DRS trains at times. Mistakes allowed us to be a bit more engaged.
They´ve brought updates later than everybody else and as before they´re good at low degradation, low temperature, low downforce races, but I doubt they´ll be able to keep the pace everywhere. They need Norris and Piastri sabotaging each other and a lot of luck. FIA/Liberty could help them by asking Pirelli to bring harder tyres (oh, no way they´d rig a championship with the tyres, it would be the first time they´d done something like that!!).
Horner's final day at RedBull, technically, receives a severance package anywhere from 50 million euros to 60 million euros or close to 100 million USD. Nothing confirmed yet to the amount of the severance package. He will be free to become a TP after a few months in 2026.
with what he's already made I'd ask to be paid out in the BVI, buy a beach front pad and sit there for the next 5 years and contemplate...absolutely nothing.
That sounds nice. F1 moves fast. He's still young and can sell himself as a TP of what he did a RedBull and still make more money. I think he's got that itch and will return soon.
He would be a fool to think he can ever repeat what he did at Red Bull. I am with @Bas on that: Horner should enjoy his early retirement.
If you watch his post-qualifying interview in Monza two weeks ago, you can see Max trying very hard to hide a knowing smile. Perhaps he knew then that he was now in the hunt for a 5th WDC. Baku results have most definitely shaken things up. McLaren no longer have the luxury of manipulating race results. Speaking as a fan: If Lando wins, I will be disappointed. If Oscar wins, I will be happy. If Max wins, I will be ecstatic.
Definitely not a repeat from RedBull but his history at RedBull is quite the resume should he pursue another TP principal role with another team.
Very interested to see what RedBull brings to Singapore and if they do have something, they're going to show it during the latter part of FP3 and for sure during qualifying.
Aston Martin would be a perfect home for Horner, that is unless Newey secretly can't stand him. Then of course Horner will want to do things his way and Stroll Sr will micromanage his way to ruining the team like always. But for a couple years, it would make sense.
Horner would never get the same satisfaction: building a team to win 6 WCCs and 8 WDCs. NO other team will ever give him that, so why go through the pain again ?
Horner has 1 team potentially available - Alpine. Have fun lol! Perfect fit for texty-fingers Horner https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-15045999/Flavio-Briatore-flirting-young-women-bikinis.html F1 supremo Flavio Briatore, 75, appears to flirt with two much younger bikini-clad women on luxury yacht trip alongside his 15-year-old son, after split from ex 49 years his junior
The pain that you're referring to is possibly Horner's innate contribution to what he can bring to the table of an F1 team given his expertise in a TP role. If Briatore can bring his contributions in a defacto TP role, however painful that may be, then I'm sure Horner can do it too.....given he has enough Tylenol.
His payout is just over 50mil vs 80 reported yesterday. He can buy shares or equity but with 2-3billion team values, he is not aToto size player yet.
