It’s well known that an often-brutal power struggle has been in raging behind the scenes at Red Bull for the past 18 months. But who was it who finally won out and pulled the plug on Christian Horner?
Step forward Oliver Mintzlaff, one of the company’s three CEOs appointed as part of the succession plan put in place by the late Red Bull magnate Dietrich Mateschitz. It was Mintzlaff who was observed openly seething at being placed in the spotlight alongside Horner and his wife Geri at the F1 75 launch in London’s O2 Arena earlier this year, picked out on the big screens as host Jack Whitehall kept up a torrent of ‘edgy’ humour.
