Dunlay wrote: ↑27 Apr 2024, 15:13
Wouter wrote: ↑27 Apr 2024, 14:37
Dunlay wrote: ↑27 Apr 2024, 14:04
Completely agreed that Red Bull Racing is vision of DM. Now that he is gone, who should claim the ownership if not Yoovidhya? In all these years, we didn't hear a single soul from GmbH making any contribution to the racibg business. The guy who drove DM's vision and brought to life his envisaged success, is Horner. He built this entire team, infrastructure and fought political battles with FOA/ FOM/Liberty et al to get things done. He also built a strong relationship with Bernie that served Red Bull Racing well. No other person deserves the control of RBR as much as Horner and if Yoovidhya is standing with Horner and backing him, he is just continuing what DM was doing.
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Then tell me why everyone with a high position at RBR believes that there must be peace in the team, otherwise they will leave!
Who is causing unrest and why? Could it possibly be the same Horner? What do you think?
My hunch
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There was a story reported a while ago. With DM gone, Yoovidhya wants to spin off Red Bull Racing as a seperate entity outside of Red Bull GmbH and Horner has prepared the blue print for it, potentially also becoming a partner. Yoovidhya also wants the headquarters shifted to Dubai from Austria and Horner becoming CEO of entire Red Bull Group, which means Oliver, Marko and others in Austria losing jobs.
These plans have lead to internal power struggle and knives are out between Austria folks, including Marko, Oliver etc., and Horner backed by Yoovidhya, which is the primary motivator behind creating the Hornergate. As Verstappens are on Marko's side, they are having a say in safeguarding Marko, who otherwise would have gone by now for allegedly leaking the chats.
As far Newey is concerned, is this political struggle that is affecting him or are there other reasons like him not being fully in driver's seat on the designing side, nobody knows.
The resistance from Austria to Yoovidhya's grand plans is where this whole fiasco is stemming from. "Peace" for Austria, meaning Yoovidhya to drop his plans and maintain status quo of keeping things as is. I doubt that is going to happen as it's too much for the ego of a billionaire to bend.
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I completely agree that Horner and Yoovidhya are the instigators of the unrest. No one knows the details, but it is known
that they both want to take over power. If that had not happened, RBR would still have been able to win the championships
at least over the next two years.
Because of these two power-hungry men RBR loses its most important people and nothing remains of the successful team.
They probably didn't expect that. How two people can destroy such a successful team is unimaginable.
It's a good thing that Dietrich Mateschitz doesn't experience/see that anymore. This is the way how Horner thanks him .
I hope that Horner's PA, who is also Newey's PA, is/will be told that her appeal is not being honored, because then she will go
to the labor court and then everyone can hear what Horner is really like!
It wouldn't surprise me if Newey knew exactly what Horner wanted from his PA. She must have told Newey things in confidence
(because she was afraid of losing her job). That is not a sustainable and healthy environment to work in and Horner is guilty of that too!!