Christian Horner has described how he had to win over the Red Bull workforce when he joined as team principal – their response having been: “Who’s this kid?” The 47-year-old has now been in charge of the Red Bull F1 team for more than 16 years and presided over their four World Championship doubles from 2010-13 in which Sebastian Vettel secured the Drivers’ title each time. However, somewhat inevitably when there is a sudden change of hierarchy, Horner’s arrival was not received too warmly on his first day at the Milton Keynes headquarters, for the staff were clearly sceptical that a 31-year-old had been brought in to oversee operations following the change of ownership from...
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