A biography for Christian Hornerhasn’t been written yet.
“Times change, things move. F1 used to have customer cars years ago. You could buy a car from March or from Ferrari and go racing.”
“Formula One is one of the biggest and most competitive sports in the world and our desire is to get back to be giving Mercedes a hard time and winning races and championships.”
“When I started there was Frank Williams, Flavio Briatore, Ron Dennis, Eddie Jordan and Peter Sauber round the table. These were entrepreneurial team owners, mavericks in some respects.”
“You can window-dress and promote a movie as much as you like but if the movie hasn't got substance and isn't an exciting movie, people won't watch it.”
“And I'd get back to the cars being physical challenges to drive - to tame the beast. The cars we have at the moment are fantastic bits of engineering, but it's a little too comfortable, a little too easy. I think I'd go back to making the driver a bigger variable.”
“Sport is escapism. Sport is a release.”
“I have total admiration for the Renault guys in the garage that are working their socks off, week in, week out.”
“It's so important to come up with the right specification of cars - they need to be loud, they need to be fast.”