{"id":21106,"date":"2014-02-26T07:14:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T12:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21106"},"modified":"2014-02-26T07:14:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T12:14:08","slug":"horner-fits-the-bill-to-replace-ecclestone-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/horner-fits-the-bill-to-replace-ecclestone-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Horner ‘fits the bill’ to replace Ecclestone – source"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christian Horner is being hotly tipped as the next ‘F1 supremo’.<\/p>\n

\"Christian-Horner-3\"A source at Delta Topco, the CVC-controlled group that owns the sport’s commercial rights, has named 40-year-old Briton Horner as the top choice to succeed embattled chief executive Bernie Ecclestone.<\/p>\n

The news follows suggestions external figures like Justin King, the outgoing Sainsbury’s chief, or F1 marketing specialist Zak Brown are in fact the more likely picks.<\/p>\n

Horner, the Red Bull team boss, has repeatedly denied he is interested in the job, even after a judge last week damagingly found that Ecclestone had paid a “bribe” to Gerhard Gribkowsky.<\/p>\n

If convicted of that very offense by a German criminal court later this year, the F1 board would certainly remove the 83-year-old.<\/p>\n

Horner, however, said last week he would “never consider” replacing Ecclestone.<\/p>\n

“My function and commitment is to Red Bull, and I certainly hope that Bernie will continue for another 20 years,” he told Sportbusiness International.<\/p>\n

But even in light of Horner’s repeated denials, a source close to the Delta Topco board said this week: “There is no doubt Christian fits the bill.<\/p>\n

“We need someone with experience of formula one, someone who can deal with television rights and commercial contracts,” the source told The Times newspaper.<\/p>\n

“The fact that Bernie would train Christian up, in effect, looks like a solution to many of the directors.”<\/p>\n

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Christian Horner is being hotly tipped as the next ‘F1 supremo’. A source at Delta Topco, the CVC-controlled group that owns the sport’s commercial rights, has named 40-year-old Briton Horner as the top choice to succeed embattled chief executive Bernie Ecclestone. The news follows suggestions external figures like Justin King, the outgoing Sainsbury’s chief, or …<\/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":[2120,3],"tags":[59,128,2637,2898,5262,5340,2638,4382,1430],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106"}],"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=21106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21107,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106\/revisions\/21107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}