克里斯蒂安·霍纳将红牛车队统治结束的痛苦归咎于迪特里希·马特希茨的去世
前车队经理克里斯蒂安·霍纳在离开红牛车队一年多后，首次透露了自己被解雇的具体情况。他将离职的原因归咎于公司高层。
克里斯蒂安·霍纳将迪特里希·马特希奇去世归咎于他F1统治时期的“痛苦”结束
克里斯蒂安·霍纳打破沉默，就他‘残酷’的雷诺解雇事件发表评论，将责任归咎于迪特里希·马特希奇去世后的公司转变
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在2025年7月突然且极具争议地离开红牛车队维修区一年多后，前车队经理克里斯蒂安·霍纳终于透露了他被解雇的确切情况。
在《卫报》的一次采访中，这位52岁的执行官揭穿了赛车场的谣言，并将自己离职的原因明确归咎于2022年底红牛亿万富翁创始人迪特里希·马特希奇去世后公司权力的大幅转移。
尽管霍纳曾带领红牛在两个不同的F1统治时代取得成功——首先是与塞巴斯蒂安·维特尔合作，然后是与马克斯·维斯塔潘合作——并赢得了六个车队冠军和八个车手冠军，但他声称新的奥地利领导团队没有提供具体的理由就将他解雇。
“我认为是因为我觉得自己手中的控制权太大，”霍纳在接受《卫报》采访时被问及为何他的20年任期突然结束时说。“但并没有真正给我一个理由。”
马克斯·维斯塔潘，红牛车队，丹尼尔·里卡多，红牛车队，车队主管克里斯蒂安·霍纳。
霍纳明确否认了关于他与马克斯·维斯塔潘或他直言不讳的父亲约斯内部摩擦直接导致他被解雇的谣言。
"不，这是红牛的决定，" 霍纳澄清说。"迪特里希去世后，领导层发生了变化。
霍纳被解雇的时间在个人层面上造成了极其痛苦的打击。就在红牛高管向他展示大门的前几天，霍纳的前伴侣、他女儿奥利维亚的母亲贝弗利·艾伦在与眼癌的斗争中去世。
鉴于他个人的哀悼过程以及他投入大量基础工作建立红牛动力系统部门的事实，霍纳承认他解雇的冷酷性质非常难以消化。
“以那样的方式结束，感觉特别残酷和悲伤，”霍纳坦白道。“这很痛苦。非常痛苦。我直到一个月后才真正处理这件事，因为在最初的混乱中，我专注于支持我的女儿度过那段糟糕的时期。”
霍纳对由奥利弗·明茨拉夫和他在维修区的替代者劳伦特·梅基斯领导的当前红牛车队进行了含沙射影的批评，他认为忠诚和优雅正在现代一级方程式赛场上迅速消失。
“历史总是重演。并不是所有车队都以这种方式行事，”霍纳尖锐地指出。“很多车队多年来都没有交付，但你不会看到我离开时那样的残酷。我们在上一场比赛中获得了杆位。”
虽然霍纳承认失去他从400人初创公司打造成为2200人巨头的车队给他带来了巨大的情感打击，但他坚持认为，他在赛道外最终找到了一种平静感。
他确认他已经与Mintzlaff重新建立了一个“合理的关系”，Mintzlaff最近打电话感谢他为车队在巴林取得首个完全独立引擎胜利奠定了基础。此外，霍纳透露，远离一级方程式的无休止的政治战争提供了一种意想不到的、尽管是被迫的、精神上的休息。
霍纳承认，过去两年相当艰难，但那是一个特别敏感的时期。‘我有一个11岁的孩子正在为她去世的母亲哀悼。没有什么比这更重要。’霍纳在谈到他的离职时说。
英文原文
Christian Horner blames Dietrich Mateschitz’s death for the “painful” end of his F1 reign
Christian Horner breaks his silence on his "brutal" Red Bull sacking, blaming a corporate shift after Dietrich Mateschitz's death
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More than a year after his abrupt and highly controversial exit from the Red Bull Racing pitwall in July 2025, former team principal Christian Horner is finally shedding light on the exact circumstances surrounding his dismissal.
In an interview with The Guardian, the 52-year-old executive stripped away the paddock rumours and placed the blame for his exit squarely on a massive corporate power shift following the passing of Red Bull's billionaire founder, Dietrich Mateschitz, in late 2022.
Despite guiding Red Bull through two separate eras of intense Formula 1 dominance - first with Sebastian Vettel and then with Max Verstappen - and collecting six constructors' championships and eight drivers' titles, Horner claims the new Austrian leadership group ousted him without providing a concrete justification.
"I think it was a feeling there was too much control in my hands," Horner told The Guardian when pressed on why his 20-year tenure was suddenly terminated. "But I wasn't really given a reason."
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Horner explicitly denied rumours that internal friction with Max Verstappen or his outspoken father, Jos, directly led to his firing.
"No, it was a Red Bull decision," Horner clarified. "After Dietrich died, things changed in the leadership."
The timing of Horner's dismissal was extraordinarily traumatic on a personal level. Just days before Red Bull executives showed him the door, Horner's former partner and the mother of his daughter Olivia, Beverley Allen, passed away following a battle with eye cancer.
Given his personal grieving process and the sheer amount of foundational work he had poured into establishing the Red Bull Powertrains division, Horner admitted the clinical nature of his firing was incredibly difficult to digest.
"It felt particularly brutal and sad to finish in that manner," Horner confessed. "It was painful. Very painful. I didn't really process it till a month later because, in the immediate aftermath, I focused on supporting my daughter through a hideous period."
Taking a thinly veiled shot at the current Red Bull regime spearheaded by Oliver Mintzlaff and his paddock replacement, Laurent Mekies, Horner suggested that loyalty and grace are rapidly vanishing from the modern Formula 1 landscape.
"History repeats itself. Not all teams act in that way," Horner stated pointedly. "A lot of teams haven't delivered over the years, but you don't see the same brutality as when I left. We had pole position at the previous race."
While Horner acknowledged the severe emotional toll of losing the team he built from a 400-person startup into a 2,200-person juggernaut, he insisted he has eventually found a sense of peace outside the paddock.
He confirmed that he has re-established a "reasonable relationship" with Mintzlaff, who recently called to thank him for laying the groundwork for the team's first fully independent engine victory in Bahrain. Furthermore, Horner revealed that stepping away from the relentless political warfare of Formula 1 provided an unexpected, albeit forced, mental reprieve.
"The last two years had been pretty tough, but it was a particularly sensitive time," Horner admitted regarding his departure. "I had an 11-year-old child grieving her mother. Nothing was more important than that."
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