The key stats from Christian Horner’s tenure as Red Bull team boss

Christian Horner’s time at Purple Bull has come to an finish, with the squad asserting on Wednesday that he’s being changed as CEO and Workforce Principal by Racing Bulls boss Laurent Mekies. Because the mud settles on the information, F1.com presents the standout numbers from his lengthy reign…

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Purple Bull Racing arrived on the F1 grid again in 2005, with former racing driver and Formulation 3000 crew boss Christian Horner chosen to steer their operation. He has remained on the helm ever since, serving because the outfit’s one and solely chief until Mekies’ promotion.

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Purple Bull had been regular factors scorers and occasional podium finishers throughout their first 4 seasons, however underneath Horner’s management – and aided by main signings such as technical guru Adrian Newey – they turned race winners and title challengers. Two championship-winning spells have to date earned half a dozen Groups’ Championships.

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Alongside that Groups’ success, Purple Bull have chalked up eight Drivers’ titles – break up equally between German racer Sebastian Vettel (2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013) and Dutchman Max Verstappen (2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024).

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Since coming into the game, 14 drivers have raced for Purple Bull’s senior crew. All of it started with David Coulthard, Christian Klien and Vitantonio Liuzzi in 2005, whereas the aforementioned Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda presently signify them.

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Time flies in F1, with Purple Bull celebrating their twentieth anniversary 12 months by way of the 2024 season and now contesting their twenty first marketing campaign.

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Throughout these 20-and-a-half seasons, Purple Bull drivers have recorded 31 one-two finishes – the overwhelming majority from Vettel and Mark Webber, and Verstappen and Sergio Perez, with one achieved by Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo.

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Purple Bull hit one other milestone at this 12 months’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix when Verstappen posted the a hundredth quickest lap within the crew’s historical past.

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It’s a barely larger quantity on the subject of pole positions, with Vettel, Webber, Ricciardo, Verstappen and Perez all contributing to their tally of 107 – Vettel and Verstappen having scored 44 apiece.

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On the subject of race wins, Purple Bull are as much as fourth in F1’s all-time listing with 124 – behind solely Mercedes (130), McLaren (198) and Ferrari (248). This features a file 21 out of twenty-two victories in 2023.

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Purple Bull’s podium numbers are equally spectacular, with the crew reaching the podium 287 instances (greater than 70% of the races they’ve contested).

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Along with Verstappen’s quickest lap and victory in Emilia-Romagna this 12 months, Purple Bull celebrated their four-hundredth Grand Prix on the Imola venue – that complete now standing at 405.

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Throughout these 405 occasions, together with final weekend’s British Grand Prix, Purple Bull have led a staggering 7,235 laps, in addition to reaching the entrance in 196 races.

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As per their victory statistics, Purple Bull are in direction of the sharp-end for factors scored – their tally of greater than 8,000 placing them second to Ferrari (10,546).

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From the beginning of their debut 2005 season to the halfway level of the 2025 marketing campaign, Purple Bull have accomplished nearly 45,000 laps at a number of tracks all over the world.

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It’s one other huge quantity when it comes to kilometres raced, particularly 218,805, which converts to some 18 laps across the Earth’s circumference.