What's behind the Red Bull chaos: Horner wanted to buy the team!

The power vacuum

With the passing in October 2022 of Dietrich Mateschitz The perfect glue that had allowed the two souls – the Thai one and the Austrian one – to coexist has disappeared in Red Bull.
The sports part of the company was assigned to the care of Oliver Mintzlaffa German manager already in the football club corporate galaxy.

Apparently the F1 project of Red Bull was enjoying excellent health, having won the drivers' title in 2021, followed by the constructors' title in 2022 (and then 2023). But already it is last year had leaked first rumors of possible internal disagreements to the team, with team principal Christian Horner who would have tried to take more and more decision-making power in the new Red Bull sporting structure. Many will remember how Horner's desire to oust Helmut Marko – a close friend of Mateschitz sr. – was discussed. -, wrecked after the intervention of Max Verstappen, who owed his F1 career to the Austrian.

How did the disagreements arise?

According to what was collected by FormulaPassion.it, an authoritative source aware of the matter, he reconstructed it the genesis of such bitter disagreements which split the team, with Horner on one side and the Austrians on the other.

In fact, it seems that in 2023 Christian Horner would have presented himself to the Yoovidhya family with an offer coming from financiers in the British area, with the aim of acquiring – in whole or in part – the Formula 1 team from the company. Thus filling that leading role – 'Wolff-style' -, which has been whispered about in many quarters in recent months.
All this without the knowledge of the Austrians, who would not have welcomed – to put it mildly – this move by the team principal.
From here the clear split would arise between Horner and Fuschl's headquarters, even before the scandal that emerged in recent weeks.
Naturally the conditional is a must in such a complex and multifaceted matter, but we can confirm that it is one strong indiscretionwhich would help rebuild the relationships that have been so tense in the team for over a year.