Formula One: Horner Given Red Bull Job
Christian Horner has been appointed sporting director of the Red Bull formula one team.
Christian Horner, the owner of the Arden team for whom Vitantonio Liuzzi won the 2004 formula 3000 championship, has been appointed sporting director of the Red Bull formula one team.
The surprise decision means that former Jaguar team principal Tony Purnell and managing director David Pitchforth will leave.
It is less that two months since the team were sold to Red Bull, and the move confirms the intention of founder Dietrich Mateschitz to stamp his own identity before the first race of the new season, the Australian grand prix on March 6.
The 31-year-old Horner will jointly manage the Red Bull team with a new technical director who will be appointed in the near future.
This is expected to be Gunther Steiner, the Austrian engineer who designed the Ford Focus world championship rally cars before being invited to join Jaguar in 2001 when Niki Lauda took over as team principal. Steiner was later dropped by Jaguar after Lauda's departure at the end of 2002.
More recently he has worked as a development engineer for Opel in the German DTM touring car series but has continued to live in England just 10 minutes' drive from the Red Bull formula one base at Milton Keynes.
The surprise decision means that former Jaguar team principal Tony Purnell and managing director David Pitchforth will leave.
It is less that two months since the team were sold to Red Bull, and the move confirms the intention of founder Dietrich Mateschitz to stamp his own identity before the first race of the new season, the Australian grand prix on March 6.
The 31-year-old Horner will jointly manage the Red Bull team with a new technical director who will be appointed in the near future.
This is expected to be Gunther Steiner, the Austrian engineer who designed the Ford Focus world championship rally cars before being invited to join Jaguar in 2001 when Niki Lauda took over as team principal. Steiner was later dropped by Jaguar after Lauda's departure at the end of 2002.
More recently he has worked as a development engineer for Opel in the German DTM touring car series but has continued to live in England just 10 minutes' drive from the Red Bull formula one base at Milton Keynes.
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