Christian Horner has supplied his congratulations to former employer Crimson Bull after its milestone victory on the System 1 Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia.
The Milton Keynes-based squad secured its first victory of the season in Sepang, with Max Verstappen taking a dominant win after an general one hour and 40 minute delay to proceedings.
Crimson Bull’s success had a further layer, because it was additionally the first-ever victory for the crew as a standalone producer.
2026 has seen the primary 12 months of its Powertrains division powering its automobile – the RB22 – in collaboration with Ford.
The win marked the American giants’ first since Giancarlo Fisichella’s for Jordan on the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix, and its first pole place since Rubens Barrichello’s for Stewart on the 1999 French Grand Prix.
Horner was instrumental within the choice for Crimson Bull to face by itself 4 wheels, because it have been, as a substitute of being a buyer of different engine producers, because it needed to nice success up to now with Renault and Honda.
And taking to his Instagram story, Horner wrote: “From a gap within the floor to race winner in 5 years.
“Big congratulations to Crimson Bull Ford Powertrains, Max and the entire crew. An unimaginable achievement!”
Horner has been the topic of additional hypothesis relating to a possible return to System 1 up to now fortnight, having been inadvertently linked with the Crew Principal function at Ferrari.
Telling The Instances that main the Maranello-based outfit was a “dream,” the hearsay mill circulating round its incumbent boss, Fred Vasseur, generated at appreciable velocity.
A lot so, that the Scuderia have been compelled to concern a brief assertion providing Vasseur their full backing.
The hearsay was additional debunked by F1 commentator and pundit Martin Brundle, who revealed that, after a telephone name with Horner, that he was not actively searching for a task with Ferrari.
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