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Red Bull Racing’s Christian Horner on going from chaos to F1 dominance

The six-time world-champion team principal recalls the journey he has taken to build Red Bull into a title-winning team

Christian Horner: ‘When I arrived at the [Red Bull] factory, the previous management had been dismissed just hours before’

Christian Horner remembers the first day he started working with Red Bull Racing. The former race driver turned team principal had built his own team called Arden International but was struggling to break into Formula 1.

In 2004, at just 31 years of age, he had been approached by Red Bull to leave Arden to join its fledgling Formula 1 team. Horner knew Red Bull wanted results but what he found on day one was ...