E186: Christian Horner: The Truth Behind Red Bull Racing's Success! | E186

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

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.

Topics:

What drives you?
Visualisation
Why its important to focus on the details
Ego
Do you self analysis?
The journey of turning red bull around
communication within a company
How did red bull innovate?
Keeping teams focused?
Why do you think your team will win?
How hard should we push people?
Where does your motivation come from
How important is naivety
Being a husband and father during all of this
Anxiety
What are you working on personally?
the lasts guest question

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Transcript

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0:00.0	It's a mental game, man.
0:01.4	When you see your counterpart smashing up headphones and landing it,
0:05.0	it counts. You know that you've got to go.
0:07.3	Christian Hornack, the team boss of the World Championship winning team,
0:10.7	Red Bull Racing.
0:11.7	Red Bull's contestant!
0:13.7	You came into Red Bull when it wasn't doing great.
0:16.4	When I came into the sport, I was the youngest team principal in Formula One.
0:19.8	I'd still am to this day, ironically,
0:21.7	and I don't have any formal qualifications bar on a couple of A-levels.
0:25.1	I wanted to make sure that we were the team on the up,
0:28.2	but it would graft and think, okay, how can we turn shit into fertilizer?
0:32.7	You can lose championships as we've seen.
0:34.6	Yeah. In seconds.
0:35.9	It felt like it was slipping away and then suddenly...
0:39.9	It was insane.
0:41.9	If somebody came over the script, so that's the way the season's going to pan out.
0:45.2	Nobody could believe it.
0:47.0	All that press scrutiny.
0:51.0	Formula One is a very glamorous world from the outside looking in.
0:54.6	It can be a lonely place at times.
0:57.9	Have you ever had moments of anxiety?
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