Christian Horner: The Truth Behind Red Bull Racing's Success!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Education, Business

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Christian Horner is the team principal of Red Bull Formula 1 racing team, which now officially holds the world title in drivers and constructors championships. An iconoclast and a one-off, he was the youngest team principal of a F1 racing team when he took over, nearly 20 years ago. He’s still the youngest team principal today. But his path to the top of the podium was not an easy one. Initially turning to team management in a desperate bid to stay in the sport when his driving career was flagging, for a while he was the sole driver, the lead engineer, the marketing and managing director of a veritable racing one man band. Now running an organisation of over 1200 people, Christian is one of the biggest characters on Formula One: Drive to Survive, the Netflix smash hit that has brought an entire new generation of fans into the sport, and the first generation to see for the first time the stresses and stakes of running a team that pushes people and machines to the edge of what’s possible, every single week. Follow Christian: Instagram - https://bit.ly/3EDNyRG Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.0	It's a mental game and when you see your counterpart
0:36.6	smashing up headphones and granting it cameras you know that you've got to them.
0:40.6	Christian Horner, the team boss of the World Championship winning team.
0:44.4	Redball Racing.
0:45.4	Redball racing.
0:46.4	When you came into Redball when it wasn't doing great.
0:50.0	When I came into the sport I was the youngest team principal in Formula One I still am to this day ironically and I don't have any formal qualifications bar a couple of A levels.
0:58.6	I wanted to make sure that we were the team on the upward graft
1:02.6	and think, okay, how can we turn shit into fertilizer?
1:06.5	You can lose championships as we've seen in seconds.
1:10.6	It felt like it was slipping away
1:12.2	and then suddenly, it was insane.
1:15.0	If somebody came out with the script and said that's the way the season's going to pan out,
1:19.0	nobody would have believed it.
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