Christian Horner has dismissed the "wild rumours" that his role as Red Bull team principal scuppered the team's proposed merger with Porsche as fiction.
For a long time, it looked as though the German giant's deal with Red Bull was little more than a formality. Porsche were expected to take control of 50 per-cent of the Milton Keynes-based team and boost their efforts to create a new Formula 1 engine through the Powertrains initiative.
But it seems the devil really was in the details of this particular merger. Differences in opinion and culture began to surface, and now the partnership looks to be dead in the water – though Porsche do still plan to enter the sport at some stage.
