Christian Horner was paid £67million in severance after being sacked by Crimson Bull following a texting scandal with a colleague, further uncovered paperwork present.
The Daily Mail’s Richard Eden revealed today that paperwork filed this week at Corporations Home from Crimson Bull Racing disclose that Horner, 52, banked £33.5million.
Now it has emerged that Horner – husband of former Spice Lady Geri Halliwell – was paid an additional £33.5m from the separate accounts of Crimson Bull Know-how, taking his complete pay-out to round £67m.
The accounts checklist an additional wage renumeration of £9.029m and ‘firm contributions to cash buy pension schemes’ at £10,000 to its highest-paid director. That takes his total package deal to an eye-watering £76m.
Horner had been the longest reigning group principal within the sport, steering Crimson Bull for 20 years and successful eight drivers’ championships and 6 constructors’ titles, however was sacked in July 2025, a yr after the scandal that engulfed him over texts he apparently despatched to a feminine worker.
The cost is disclosed within the small print of Crimson Bull Racing’s newest accounts for final yr and is reported as ‘compensation for lack of workplace’ within the administrators’ remuneration part.
Horner has at all times denied the claims and was twice cleared of any impropriety in inside investigations at Crimson Bull, regardless of a tranche of supposedly intimate textual content exchanges between the pair being made public in an explosive e-mail despatched to F1 figures earlier than the 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix.
Christian Horner – Geri Halliwell’s husband – was paid £67million in severance by Crimson Bull
The group principal was axed after a texting scandal, although two investigations cleared him of impropriety
His spouse Geri stood by him all through the scandal. They reside collectively in a £9.2m mansion close to the Oxfordshire border with Northamptonshire.
Final month, it was revealed that the lady who accused him of coercive behaviour had been mysteriously launched from her newest position in motor racing.
A supply informed Each day Mail Sport that she was knowledgeable her providers had been not required moments earlier than her scheduled flight to Budapest, a race gained by McLaren’s British world champion Lando Norris.
Her then employers, who can even not be named, mentioned: ‘We don’t touch upon personnel issues.’
It’s understood her newest place was terminated after her new boss, with whom she labored intently, misplaced confidence in her ‘for an absence of discretion’.
The saga that unfolded surrounding Horner’s supposedly coercive behaviour was one of many largest to hit F1 lately.
Seventy-nine screenshots of WhatsApp chats between Horner and the feminine then colleague had been leaked in an explosive e-mail despatched to F1 figures forward of the 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix.
The file allegedly containing texts and pictures was leaked to virtually 200 individuals concerned within the sport, together with house owners Liberty Media, group principals and the media.
Horner oversaw eight drivers’ titles at Crimson Bull, together with 4 in a row with Max Verstappen
The poignant second former Crimson Bull group principal Horner broke the information of his sacking to his Spice Lady spouse
Horner had been on the prime of Crimson Bull since its inception in 2005, and led them in two phases to world championship success by Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen.
There have been rising rumours of the 52-year-old probably returning to the grid.
He not too long ago informed The Instances that Ferrari are his ‘dream’ group to hitch and the one one he would take into account signing up for with out an fairness stake.
‘Would I take into account Ferrari? I imply, Ferrari is the most important model in System 1. It is the dream. And arguably it is the sleeping large of System 1,’ he mentioned.
‘I have been a employed hand. I did 21 years sitting on the pit wall. I do not want to return to that.
‘At this stage in my life, there’s just one group for which I’d settle for non-participation in possession [Ferrari].’
Every week in the past Lewis Hamilton, the seven-time world champion, backed his beleaguered group principal Fred Vasseur because the ‘proper man’ to steer Ferrari amid hypothesis that Horner may take over.
Hamilton didn’t elaborate on what adjustments he needed to see however his feedback had been hardly an amazing vote of confidence within the organisation he joined final season in quest of his eighth world title.
Lewis Hamilton appeared to make a cryptic demand that Ferrari change the group’s hierarchy
However Horner’s hopes of a return took a blow when Ferrari publicly backed present group principal Fred Vasseur.
Ferrari’s chief communications officer Maria Conti led the dialog, saying to a bunch of some 15 reporters: ‘Ferrari need to finish hypothesis over the management of the group.
‘I’m formally saying that Ferrari has made its selections and has full confidence in Fred Vasseur and his group. Nothing has modified. In order that’s it.’
It stays the case that Vasseur has didn’t ship the outcomes chairman John Elkann would have wished for, by no means getting near a world championship regardless of paying Lewis Hamilton £80million-a-year to race for them.
Vasseur can be broadly condemned inside the organisation for failing to study various phrases of Italian, as an alternative talking in English, or his native French, since taking on as Scuderia boss in 2023.
As Each day Mail Sport revealed in September, the 58-year-old can be believed to have well being issues – referring to his coronary heart and the stress of the job. Moreover, his elevation to such a senior standing within the sport stays scarcely plausible given his limp years as Alfa Romeo boss, the place he gained precisely nothing. They had been behind the sector yr after yr.
