克里斯蒂安·霍纳谈离开红牛F1：或许被认为我对车队影响过大
克里斯蒂安·霍纳暗示，被认为对车队影响过大导致他去年离开红牛F1车队主管职位。
克里斯蒂安·霍纳在谈到红牛一级方程式车队离职时表示：“或许人们觉得我对车队的影响太大”
克里斯蒂安·霍纳就为什么红牛去年决定与他分手发表了看法
克里斯蒂安·霍纳暗示，人们觉得他对车队的影响太大，这导致了他去年作为红牛一级方程式车队主管的离职
这位前红牛老板监督了车队转变为能量饮料品牌车队，并进入了两个一级方程式统治时代：首先是与塞巴斯蒂安·维特尔一起，在2010-13年间获得了四个一级方程式世界车手和世界车队制造商的冠军，然后是与马克斯·维斯塔潘一起，在2021-24年间获得了四个世界车手冠军和三个世界车队制造商的冠军。
但是，在针对不当行为指控的内部调查和上诉——这两者都清除了霍纳的名誉——的过程中，2024年在红牛内部引发了一场激烈的权力斗争。
随着像阿德里安·纽维和乔纳森·惠特利这样的高知名度团队成员离职，以及红牛在2025年的成绩下滑，霍纳在2025年7月被解除了车队主管的职务。
在接受姐妹杂志《AutoSport》的独家采访时，霍纳谈到了他认为导致他离职的原因。
“我认为公司只是想要走向不同的方向，或者可能有人觉得我对车队的影响太大，”霍纳说。“当然，迪特里希[马特希奇]去世后的生活，在集团内部已经大不相同了。”
霍纳被红牛联合创始人迪特里希·马特希奇选中，领导F1车队在收购捷豹车队后的转型，并在他们的合作中一直是亲密的盟友。
2022年10月马特希奇的去世普遍被认为引发了红牛车队的权力斗争，品牌董事会，在首席执行官奥利弗·明茨拉夫的监督下，寻求在F1运营上获得更多控制权，并远离霍纳的职责范围。
霍纳向马特希奇以及他在红牛对他的信任表示敬意。
“他是红牛。所有重要的决定都经过他，他与Yoovidhya家族在伟大的合作中从无到有地建立了这个业务，”霍纳说，指的是马特希奇以外的红牛其他联合拥有者。
“迪特里希对赛车、汽车充满热情，他热爱车手，热爱所有形式的赛车运动。当你看到他所做出的贡献，不仅仅是对于一级方程式，还有拉力赛，以及所有青训车队，你今天看到的任何形式的赛车运动，都不难发现太阳和公牛标志以某种方式出现在车辆或车手身上。”
“很容易低估他为赛车运动世界所做的一切，因此，不可避免地，当你失去这样一个创始人时，留下的是一个空缺，一切都变得不同。他对我很不错，给了我机会，他信任我，并给了我运营业务的自由，我将永远感激他。”
“红牛帝国最高层的这种地震级变化震撼了整个组织，霍纳觉得这对他作为红牛一级方程式车队主管的角色产生了影响。”
“在那之后，一切都变得不同了。突然之间，委员会和公司驱动的[管理]比以前一个创始人一个人管理要多得多，决策过程也与我们习惯的不同。”
您可以在这里观看与克里斯蒂安·霍纳的《Autosport访谈》完整内容。
英文原文
Christian Horner opens up on Red Bull F1 exit: “Perhaps it was perceived I had too much influence over the team”
Christian Horner gives his opinion on why Red Bull decided to part company with him last year
Christian Horner has hinted that “it was perceived that I had too much influence over the team” which led to his departure as Red Bull Formula 1 team principal last year.
The former Red Bull boss oversaw the team’s transformation into the energy drinks-branded outfit and into two eras of F1 domination: firstly with Sebastian Vettel and four consecutive F1 world drivers’ and world constructors’ titles between 2010-13 and then with Max Verstappen with four world drivers’ championships and three world constructors’ crowns between 2021-24.
But amid an internal investigation over allegations of inappropriate behaviour and an appeal – both of which cleared Horner’s name – it set into action a fractious power struggle at Red Bull in 2024.
With high profile team members such as Adrian Newey and Jonathan Wheatley leaving and Red Bull’s results in decline going into 2025, Horner was sacked as team principal in July 2025.
In an exclusive interview with sister publication Autosport, Horner has opened up on what he felt led to his departure.
“I think the company just wanted to go in a different direction, or perhaps it was perceived I had too much influence over the team,” Horner said. “And, of course, life after Dietrich [Mateschitz] had passed was quite different within the group.”
Horner was chosen by Red Bull co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz to lead the transformation of the F1 team following the takeover of the Jaguar outfit, and was a close ally throughout their partnership.
Mateschitz’s death in October 2022 is widely considered to have started the power struggle at the Red Bull team, with the brand’s board, overseen by CEO Oliver Mintzlaff, looking to take more control over F1 operations and away from Horner’s remit.
Horner paid tribute to Mateschitz and the faith he put in him at Red Bull.
“He was Red Bull. All the significant decisions were going through him, he built that business from nothing in a great partnership with the Yoovidhya family,” Horner said, referring to Red Bull’s other co-owners alongside Mateschitz.
“Dietrich was passionate about racing, cars, he loved the drivers, he loved all forms of motorsport. When you look at the contribution he made, not just to Formula 1 but to rallying, to all the junior categories, there's not a form of motorsport that you look at these days that doesn't in some way have the sun and bull logo on a car or on a driver.
“It's easy to underestimate what he actually has done for the world of motorsport, so inevitably when you lose a founder like that it leaves a void and it's just different. He was very good to me, he gave me the chance, he believed in me and he gave me the freedom to operate the business and I'll forever be grateful to him for that.”
It was this seismic change at the very top of the Red Bull empire that shook up the organisation and Horner felt it had an impact on his role at Red Bull F1 team principal.
“It was just different after that. Suddenly there was a lot more committee and corporately-driven [management] than perhaps a one-man founder and the decision-making process that we'd become accustomed to.”
You can watch 'The Autosport Interview' with Christian Horner in its entirety here.
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