Aston Martin proprietor Lawrence Stroll has advised staff that Christian Horner won’t be becoming a member of the Components 1 crew.
Stroll gave a speech to workers on the Aston Martin manufacturing unit on Tuesday by which he mentioned taking over Horner was “not taking place”, sources have advised BBC Sport.
Stroll mentioned in his speech that the brand new management construction introduced by the crew this week would stay in place.
F1 design legend Adrian Newey is to become team principal from the start of 2026, along with his function as managing technical associate.
Present crew principal and chief govt officer Andy Cowell is to maneuver into a brand new function by which he’s answerable for organising the connection with new engine associate Honda and the crew’s gas suppliers.
Horner, who was sacked by Purple Bull in July after 20 years main the crew, had been pushing for a task at Aston Martin as one among his choices for returning to F1.
An Aston Martin spokesperson denied Horner had been given a tour of the manufacturing unit beneath cowl of darkness by Newey earlier this week.
Stroll didn’t deny there had been conversations with Horner in his speech.
However there are questions as as to whether Horner could be acceptable to Newey, who left Purple Bull final April at the least partly due to a decline of their relationship.
Newey was upset concerning the allegations of sexual harassment and coercive, controlling behaviour made in opposition to Horner by a feminine worker. Horner was twice cleared of the claims by inside Purple Bull investigations.
And Newey was unsettled by politics throughout the design division, by which he believed colleagues had been claiming credit score for work he felt was his and that Horner was encouraging that.
Horner needs to return to F1 however solely able that offers him a shareholding and whole authority over a crew.
Cowell was moved apart after it turned obvious he and Newey had totally different management types and opinions as to how the crew could be run.
Newey is considered arguably the best F1 designer in historical past, having gained 14 drivers’ titles and 12 constructors’ championships with Williams, McLaren and Purple Bull.
Newey mentioned in an interview with Sky Sports activities on Friday on the Qatar Grand Prix: “To be completely trustworthy, it turned very evident that, with the problem of the ’26 PU and Andy’s skillset when it comes to serving to the three-way relationship between Honda, Aramco and ourselves, it’s completely his skillset.
“So he very magnanimously volunteered to be closely concerned in that via the primary a part of ’26.
“That left a type of, ‘OK, who’s going to be TP?’ And since I’ll be doing all of the early races anyway, it does not really significantly change my workload as a result of I am there anyway so I could as properly decide up that bit.”
