Christian Horner

I think the team will definitely still be there, come what may. The marketing power of F1 has been massive for them, even with this obvious recent PR blot. It's more likely Horner will leave than the team be sold imo.

But it is likely some other notable people will leave in the next year or so, the situation behind closed doors is obviously not at all healthy for the team - no matter how many times Horner insists it's business as usual

Who’s going to lend him the high nine or even ten figure sum required?

Leslie, two doors down? Or just go into the VC market like everyone else and do a deal. How much of his own money do you think Stroll actually put up? And how many multiples came back out the next week? Or Dave Richards? Anything from him or just a big slug of dumb money from the ME that went in and then mostly went straight back out.

There'll be money out there that isn't going to trouble itself over an image that may perturb some Western palettes. The ME was always the go to destination for thicko cash from people that had no concept of faux Western sensibilities and today you have the entire BRIC empire awash with vast amounts of cash from flogging tat to dim witted Western credit monkeys the size of which an Austrian caravan beverage vendor could only dream of. For every dollar that wants to pay away to look like it cares more about the planet to punters while stripping it, there are ten times as many who want to buy i to an image that's little less murdery, money laundery and all in just a little less douchebag.

And if the bulk of the value of the team to RB was in promoting a less douchebag image to entice more people to buy their tasty beverage then potentially most of that marketing and image premium may have been eroded if the type of people who drink red bull are also the type of people to find it disgraceful for the boss and the pa to have been playing at away games.

Who knows but whatever the deal there will always be a pool of money scummy enough to offer terms.

You'd need a spare $2.6bn (valuation courtesy of Google) to buy Red Bull Racing. You're likely to be a very canny and successful businessperson to have acquired that much spare cash. It seems unlikely that you'd spend it on a team that has just lost it's chief technical officer, is rumoured to be about to lose it's star driver, is likely to have many other senior members of staff looking elsewhere and has a CEO who may well soon be incourt defending charges of inappropriate workplace behaviour in the near future.

So if you wanted to invest in an F1 team, Horner would be about the last person you'd currently look to invest in. Teams success comes and goes, we are currently seeing RB at the top on track, but falling apart within. Their future projectory is - inevitably - to slide down the grid.

Yoovidhya

'People' do care though. Tabloids aren't stupid so don't bang on about who his wife is for no reason.

Perhaps if he’d stuck to banging only his wife, the team wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place?

Maybe she should have been called "Starfish Spice" if she did not satisfy CH?

Indeed. And even a nerd had time to learn how it's done from Flávio et al. It's not as if 25 years in the international paddock didn't present the opportunity for even the most useless of blokes to garner the basics from their peers.

It's not exactly rocket science to buy a boat and allocate quarters to a temporary head of entertainment or mast consultant.

Newey has resigned... leaves for 2025.