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Why F1 will miss Horner after his Red Bull exit had hallmarks of his arrival 20 years ago

From day one at Red Bull Christian Horner was fully aware of the ruthlessness in F1. So perhaps Wednesday’s announcement that he was being “released from his operational duties” shouldn’t have come as such a bolt from the blue.

When we spoke during the writing of Growing Wings: The Inside Story of Red Bull Racing, Horner recounted how he was asked to wait in the car park while Red Bull’s legal team dismissed the team’s original principal, Tony Purnell.

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