Christian Horner has been released from his post as Red Bull’s team principal with immediate effect. Horner, who was reportedly reduced to tears when he informed his staff, has been in charge of Red Bull since the team was formed in 2005 and will be replaced by Laurent Mekies, the principal of their sister team, Racing Bulls.
Horner’s surprise removal as principal and chief executive of Red Bull Racing was confirmed in a statement from the team’s parent company on Wednesday morning and comes just over 17 months after he was embroiled in a scandal involving accusations of inappropriate behaviour by an employee, though he was later cleared by an investigation.
