A week ago the rumors were that Fred was about to get his walking papers.
Ferrari resigns him for two years.

https://www.planetf1.com/news/...ear-contract-ferrari

That quashes the Horner to Ferrari rumors, I suppose.

Ferrari never wanted any of that anyway.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:
That quashes the Horner to Ferrari rumors, I suppose.

Horner isn't going anywhere that won't give him a piece of team ownership. After his time at Red Bull, he's not going to make it easy to fire him again. What keeps coming up is him possibly going to Alpine as they need a full rebuild and since they've been selling pieces of the team, there's no reason to think they wouldn't sell him a piece.

I'd seen a few mentions about Horner/Flavio buying Alpine.
Also a not so serious mention of Aston being sold this week & maybe Horner bought it.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:
I'd seen a few mentions about Horner/Flavio buying Alpine.
Also a not so serious mention of Aston being sold this week & maybe Horner bought it.

I believe the only way Horner gets back into F1 is as a (minority) owner. Allegedly Bernie is willing to back him. My thoughts are that they will try to acquire Alpine because even though several key members of Red Bull went to AM they went for a reason and I’m not sure Adrian and company would want to work for him again…JMHO.

Flavio + Horner would be an interesting pairing.

Wow Aston Martin ate their Wheaties this am with both cars making into Q3!

I heard they had a newly designed front wing. Maybe Adrian Newey is starting to have some positive influences

A lot to think about for a number of people over the summer break.
A predictable and not too exciting race for the first 2/3rd then more eventful in the end.
The least happy, Charles Leclerc.
Max and Lewis unhappy but for mostly different reasons. Ironic that they end up in a scrap and a possible penalty fighting for not much.
Russell and Alonso had something to be happy about. Both ended up doing better than most would have expected.

Definitely a day to forget for LH. Thought he might be able to make some ground on the 1-stop.

McLaren had a lucky day, almost a RBR/Baku repeat.

A little surprised it was so difficult to pass, don't recall it being that hard in past years. Seemed if you had DRS, the car behind didn't have much of a chance. Kept LH stranded in a train for a lot of the race.