A day later, the racing team’s chief technology officer, Adrian Newey, announced he had quit the team and would leave the company in early 2025. Horner lost another team member: Red Bull sporting director Jonathan Wheatley, who had been part of Red Bull since 2006 and left to join the Audi F1 project, at the start of August.

Ralf Schumacher has claimed that Christian Horner’s role at Red Bull should be 'under review' in a recent discussion where he also labelled the team principal as ‘controversial’.

Christian Horner says a big factor in the decision to move Liam Lawson to Racing Bulls after just two races was because his engineers had become “concerned” by his mental state.