霍纳回忆录披露五件鲜为人知往事
克里斯蒂安·霍纳的回忆录《Drive》今日发行，讲述他从立志成为F1车手到成为最成功车队领队之一的经历。The Race在专访前通读全书，选出五件引人注目且此前鲜为人知的事情。
克里斯蒂安·霍纳的回忆录《Drive》今日发行，讲述了他从立志成为F1车手起步、最终成为史上最成功车队领队之一的经历。
在上周对克里斯蒂安·霍纳进行长篇专访之前（专访内容可在YouTube和播客中获取），我们读完了全书每一页，挑选出五件引人注目、且此前鲜为人知的事情。
1 霍纳曾以青训车手身份测试劳伦斯·斯特罗尔的F1赛车
霍纳参加F3时曾短暂签约路特斯，身份就是如今所说的青训车手。这需要付出代价：一笔17万英镑的“年费”，霍纳称自己为此艰难筹款，据信某位名叫奈杰尔·曼塞尔的人提供了一点帮助。
他当时正努力成为职业赛车手，只得到过一次驾驶F1赛车的机会，那是在赫瑟尔测试赛道上对一辆已卖给劳伦斯·斯特罗尔（现阿斯顿·马丁F1车队联合所有者）的莲花赛车进行试车。
“引擎轰然启动的声音差点让我心脏病发作，”霍纳写道。“它的动力令人难以置信，也令人畏惧。那辆莲花赛车的一切似乎都随时会爆炸。
“底盘愤怒地颤抖，我的双手在方向盘上震动。就像我被绑在一艘火箭飞船的前端，在几圈短暂的驾驶中，加速时我的头猛地撞向头枕；刹车时，我的肋骨感到被挤压，因为我被向前推在座椅上，又猛地撞回安全带。
“之后我的眼睛一定瞪得像碟子一样大。我感到亢奋。F1赛车的动力似乎无穷无尽。”
那件事，再加上一个国际F3000赛季，就是他以职业车手身份最接近F1的时候了。
2 劳达曾邀请霍纳出任梅赛德斯车队领队
当霍纳正带领红牛度过他们在F1的首个统治期时，2012年底尼基·劳达找上门来，请他接任梅赛德斯车队领队。
“圣诞假期期间，尼基来到我家，请我加入梅赛德斯担任他的车队领队，”霍纳写道。“我一时措手不及。离开红牛从来都
这件事曾在我脑海中闪过。当他随后列出一连串令人眼花缭乱的数字时，我意识到他正在讨论我的潜在薪资。
霍纳声称他拒绝了这份邀约，理由是他从零开始打造了红牛车队，并且对红牛和迪特里希·马特希茨忠心耿耿。随后，托托·沃尔夫被任命担任该职位。
3 库特哈德可能保住了霍纳在红牛的饭碗
红牛最初与霍纳的合同包括两年期限以及2007年的续约选项。但他在书中解释道，在2006年摩纳哥大奖赛之前，他通过赫尔穆特·马尔科得知，预计这个选项不会被激活——这一点后来被一封信所证实。
“没有解释为什么会这样，”霍纳写道。“我感到措手不及，但我没有变得沮丧，而是专注于比赛，并想好了下一步该怎么走。”
结果下一步是库特哈德在摩纳哥以第三名拿下红牛在F1的首个领奖台。库特哈德并不知道幕后这一情况是如何发展的，因此他在确保霍纳留任方面发挥了重要作用。
霍纳的回忆录中对马尔科有不少批评，尽管也对他最初将自己引入担任车队领队一职心存感激。一个关键方面是马尔科对媒体的言论在多大程度上让阿德里安·纽维感到沮丧。
“他的媒体活动同样令人沮丧，因为他乐于向他偏爱的平台分享内部信息，”霍纳写道。“除了呈现一个自我标榜的
他在媒体面前以权威姿态发声，对红牛的车手、赛车、工程师、策略以及与我们竞赛方式有关的一切事务直言不讳，这些观点都被公之于众。
霍纳形容纽维“随着每一次泄密变得越来越焦躁”，因为他不愿不必要地泄露任何技术机密。
5 里卡多退出了与红牛的口头协议
当丹尼尔·里卡多在2018年匈牙利大奖赛后打电话告诉霍纳“我要去雷诺”时，人们感到沮丧。尤其是因为红牛已经同意了里卡多的所有条件——一份为期一年的合同，以及不逊于雷诺提供的每年2500万美元的薪酬。
“我感到非常失望，”霍纳写道。“迪特里希给丹尼尔提供了一份很棒的合同；已经握手敲定了。现在他却要离开我们去雷诺，而包括迈凯伦在内的其他几支更优秀的车队都想签下他。这一切对我来说都说不通。”
霍纳认为，里卡多做出这一选择的关键原因，是需要离开一支已被马克斯·维斯塔潘打上个人烙印的车队。
英文原文
Christian Horner's memoir ‘Drive' is released today, telling the story of how he started out as an aspiring Formula 1 driver before becoming one of the most successful team bosses of all time.
Prior to our extensive interview with Christian Horner last week, which is available both on YouTube and in podcast form, we read every page and have picked out five attention-grabbing - and previously little-known - things that caught our eye.
1 Horner tested Lawrence Stroll's F1 car as a junior
When he was racing in Formula 3, Horner was briefly on Lotus's books as what we'd today call a junior driver. This came with a price, with a £170,000 "annual fee" that Horner explains battling to raise - with a little help suspected to have come from a certain Nigel Mansell.
He only had one opportunity to drive an F1 car while trying to become a professional racing driver when he shook down a Lotus that had been sold to Lawrence Stroll, now Aston Martin F1 co-owner, at the Hethel test track.
"The sound of the engine exploding into life had nearly given me a heart attack," writes Horner. "Its power felt incredible and intimidating. Everything about the Lotus seemed primed to explode.
"The chassis trembled angrily and my hands vibrated on the steering wheel. It was as if I'd been strapped to the front of a rocket ship, and during several brief laps, my head snapped back against the headrest when accelerating; during braking, my ribs felt compressed as I was thrust forward in my seat and bucked against the harness.
"My eyes must have looked like saucers afterwards. I felt high. The power of a Formula 1 car seemed limitless."
That, and a season in International F3000, was as close as he got to F1 as a professional driver.
2 Lauda offered Horner the Mercedes team boss job
When Horner was in the middle of leading Red Bull's first spell of F1 dominance, he was approached by Niki Lauda to take over as Mercedes team principal in late 2012.
"During the Christmas break, Niki came to my house and asked me to join Mercedes as his team principal," writes Horner. "I was caught off guard. Leaving Red Bull had never
crossed my mind. When he then laid out a series of dazzling numbers, I realised he was discussing my potential salary."
Horner claims to have turned down the offer, citing how he had built Red Bull Racing from scratch and his loyalty to Red Bull and Dietrich Mateschitz. Toto Wolff was then appointed to the role.
3 Coulthard may have saved Horner's Red Bull job
Red Bull's original deal with Horner comprised two years and an option for 2007. But he explains in his book how he heard via Helmut Marko ahead of the 2006 Monaco Grand Prix that this option was not expected to be picked up - something that was later confirmed by a letter.
"There was no explanation for why," writes Horner. "I felt blindsided, but rather than becoming despondent, I focused on the race and worked out my next steps."
It turns out that the next step was Coulthard taking the first Red Bull podium in F1 with third place in Monaco. Coulthard, who was unaware of how this situation played out behind the scenes, therefore played an important role in ensuring Horner stayed on.
There's plenty of criticism of Marko in Horner's memoir, albeit offset by gratitude for his role in bringing him in as team principal in the first place. One key aspect is the extent to which Marko's comments to the media frustrated Adrian Newey.
"His media activities were equally frustrating because he happily shared insider information with the platforms he favoured," writes Horner. "Aside from presenting a self-styled
position of authority to the media, his outspoken opinions about Red Bull's drivers, cars, engineers, strategies and anything and everything to do with our racing approach were being announced to the world."
Horner describes Newey as growing "more agitated with every leak", given his desire not to give away any technical secrets unnecessarily.
5 Ricciardo walked out of a handshake deal with Red Bull
When Daniel Ricciardo called Horner to tell him that "I'm going to Renault" after the 2018 Hungarian Grand Prix, there was frustration. Not least because Red Bull had agreed to all of Ricciardo's terms with a one-year deal and a pay packet no worse than the $25million a year he was offered by Renault.
"I felt so disappointed," writes Horner. "Dietrich had offered Daniel a great deal; it had been agreed with a handshake. Now he was leaving us for Renault, when several other superior teams, McLaren included, wanted to sign him. None of it made sense to me."
Horner suggests the need to get out of a team Max Verstappen had made his own was key to Ricciardo's choice.
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