Christian Horner’s time at Pink Bull has come to an finish, with the squad asserting on Wednesday that he’s being changed as CEO and Group Principal by Racing Bulls boss Laurent Mekies. Because the mud settles on the information, F1.com presents the standout numbers from his lengthy reign…
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Pink Bull Racing arrived on the F1 grid again in 2005, with former racing driver and Method 3000 workforce boss Christian Horner chosen to guide their operation. He has remained on the helm ever since, serving because the outfit’s one and solely chief until Mekies’ promotion.
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Pink Bull have been regular factors scorers and occasional podium finishers throughout their first 4 seasons, however underneath Horner’s management – and aided by main signings such as technical guru Adrian Newey – they grew to become race winners and title challengers. Two championship-winning spells have to this point earned half a dozen Groups’ Championships.
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Alongside that Groups’ success, Pink Bull have chalked up eight Drivers’ titles – cut up equally between German racer Sebastian Vettel (2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013) and Dutchman Max Verstappen (2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024).
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Since coming into the game, 14 drivers have raced for Pink Bull’s senior workforce. All of it started with David Coulthard, Christian Klien and Vitantonio Liuzzi in 2005, whereas the aforementioned Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda at present characterize them.
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Time flies in F1, with Pink Bull celebrating their twentieth anniversary 12 months by means of the 2024 season and now contesting their twenty first marketing campaign.
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Throughout these 20-and-a-half seasons, Pink Bull drivers have recorded 31 one-two finishes – the overwhelming majority from Vettel and Mark Webber, and Verstappen and Sergio Perez, with one achieved by Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo.
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Pink Bull hit one other milestone at this 12 months’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix when Verstappen posted the a centesimal quickest lap within the workforce’s historical past.
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It’s a barely greater quantity in the case of pole positions, with Vettel, Webber, Ricciardo, Verstappen and Perez all contributing to their tally of 107 – Vettel and Verstappen having scored 44 apiece.
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On the subject of race wins, Pink Bull are as much as fourth in F1’s all-time listing with 124 – behind solely Mercedes (130), McLaren (198) and Ferrari (248). This features a report 21 out of twenty-two victories in 2023.
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Pink Bull’s podium numbers are equally spectacular, with the workforce reaching the podium 287 occasions (greater than 70% of the races they’ve contested).
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Along with Verstappen’s quickest lap and victory in Emilia-Romagna this 12 months, Pink Bull celebrated their four-hundredth Grand Prix on the Imola venue – that whole now standing at 405.
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Throughout these 405 occasions, together with final weekend’s British Grand Prix, Pink Bull have led a staggering 7,235 laps, in addition to reaching the entrance in 196 races.
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As per their victory statistics, Pink Bull are in direction of the sharp-end for factors scored – their tally of greater than 8,000 placing them second to Ferrari (10,546).
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From the beginning of their debut 2005 season to the halfway level of the 2025 marketing campaign, Pink Bull have accomplished nearly 45,000 laps at a bunch of tracks world wide.
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It’s one other monumental quantity when it comes to kilometres raced, particularly 218,805, which converts to some 18 laps across the Earth’s circumference.
