{"id":19989,"date":"2013-11-22T06:35:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T11:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19989"},"modified":"2013-11-22T06:35:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T11:35:08","slug":"ecclestone-names-horner-as-ideal-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-names-horner-as-ideal-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone names Horner as ‘ideal’ successor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernie Ecclestone has named Red Bull team boss Christian Horner as his ideal successor.<\/p>\n

Ecclestone, F1’s long-time ‘supremo’, is currently locked in legal battles amid a corruption scandal, with F1 owner CVC this week admitting a conviction could result in him being ousted.<\/p>\n

Fellow Briton Horner, Red Bull’s ultra-successful, newly 40-year-old boss and a former F3000 driver, has always played down speculation naming him as an obvious Ecclestone successor.<\/p>\n

But he is famously close to 83-year-old Ecclestone, who on Thursday named Horner as the “ideal” man to reign in his stead.<\/p>\n

“Christian would be ideal for my job,” Ecclestone is quoted by the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

“I would be happy to hold his hand.\u00a0 We could have a transitional period.<\/p>\n

“It needs someone who knows the sport,” Ecclestone explained.\u00a0 “If someone comes in from outside, a corporate type, I don’t think I could work with them.\u00a0 It wouldn’t last five minutes.”<\/p>\n

Ecclestone added that he knows Horner well and trusts him: “I hope we can do it,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Bernie Ecclestone has named Red Bull team boss Christian Horner as his ideal successor. Ecclestone, F1’s long-time ‘supremo’, is currently locked in legal battles amid a corruption scandal, with F1 owner CVC this week admitting a conviction could result in him being ousted. Fellow Briton Horner, Red Bull’s ultra-successful, newly 40-year-old boss and a former …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,128,5262,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19990,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19989\/revisions\/19990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}