Christian Horner is done working for corporate boards. After building Red Bull into a 14-championship powerhouse only to get pushed out post-Mateschitz, the 52-year-old told The Guardian he won't return to F1 without an ownership stake. That kills the Ferrari rumors—Maranello doesn't sell shares, and Horner isn't interested in hired-gun work anymore. "I would only return for the right opportunity with like-minded people that want to win," he said. "I would never go back just to take part." He cleared up his earlier "dream job" Ferrari comment as taken out of context and threw a jab at Toto Wolff, who predicted Red Bull's in-house engine would be "completely shit" before Max won with it in Bahrain and Singapore. With 124 GP wins and eight drivers' titles on his resume, Horner isn't desperate. If no ownership deal surfaces, he's perfectly happy sitting on a tractor instead of the pitwall.
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