Christian Horner Quotes

Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.

Red Bull is an energy drinks company operating a team in F1, of course it doesn't sit particularly well when you are competing against iconic brands like Ferrari and Mercedes. We are happy to be perceived as a bit of a maverick.

F1 needs Ferrari much more than Ferrari needs F1.

Formula 1 will always have high and strong investment. Who can't make these investments will race in other series.

The competition in today's world of racing is so tough.

Mercedes and Ferrari fear Red Bull more than any other team because they know the potency and capability that we have.

Mercedes for me is the strongest team.

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.

I still believe that Mercedes and Ferrari are the two strongest power units but then Honda is a lot stronger than they get credit for I think.

Mercedes and Ferrari are working as one team these days. Sometimes it is difficult to tell which is which.

Let's be realistic about that. I think Mercedes when it started the engine [development] didn't have a budget. It spent. And then lots of teams don't and can't. I mean Red Bull, for example, that won four world championships, didn't know the word "budget", and it's a case that it hadn't got the ability to have the engine that it should have had. Because somebody else [Mercedes] had the engine, wouldn't let them have it, because they didn't want competition.

It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it.

My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.

You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don't know how good you are until you get there.

There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.

Formula 1 has to be more and more also a laboratory, a centre of advanced research for innovative technologies for tomorrow's cars. The KERS is very important in this context, and Ferrari as a manufacturer had, and has, extraordinary support in Formula 1.

In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about three or four years old, I said I wanted to race, but I was too young; then, when I reached the age of seven, my father gave me a kart and we started from there.

I don't understand the concept of always trying to make F1 go slower and slower and slower and have less and less power.

I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.

I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.

When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany.

I think you're certainly going to see much closer racing. But, no, these are very good teams in the IRL. I just can't stress how competitive they all are and how close it's going to be.

I was a big Damon Hill fan, and I loved Michael Schumacher.

You can play basketball and have a magic night and score 40 points with your team-mates and win the game. There are favourites for the World Cup, but you can't guarantee Germany, Spain, or Brazil will win, but here, everyone can guarantee that Mercedes or Ferrari will win the race, and this is very sad for the sport.

Since I started driving in F1 in 2006-07, the cars have got slower and easier to drive.