Overview

• Christian Horner was dismissed with immediate effect after twenty years as Red Bull’s team principal.
• Laurent Mekies has been appointed team principal and competitive CEO to lead the senior Formula 1 operation.
• Alan Permane will take over Mekies’s previous role leading the junior outfit VisaRB.
• Red Bull has fallen to fourth in the constructors’ standings this season, with Max Verstappen third in the drivers’ championship.
• The team has lost prominent technical staff over the past two years, including Adrian Newey, Jonathan Wheatley and Will Courtenay.