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Christian Horner is proving a distraction for Ferrari by “looking for a job”, team principal Frederic Vasseur says.<\/b><\/p>\n
Horner, dismissed as Red Bull team principal in July 2025, used an interview with the Times this week to say that Ferrari are the only Formula 1 team he would work for without being given a shareholding, describing it as “the dream”, external<\/span><\/a>. <\/p>\n Vasseur outlined his frustration with Horner following Saturday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix – at which Charles Leclerc finished fourth and his Ferrari team-mate Lewis Hamilton was sixth.<\/p>\n He said: “We are not working in the perfect serenity. <\/p>\n “For me, first, but for everybody in the team, for the media, for 50% of the questions [to be] about this, it’s a bit of a frustrating situation.<\/p>\n “We are fighting for P2 [second place] in the championship, and at the end of the day, we are all speaking a lot about this, and even for the guys in the garage, to discuss about this, it’s the best discussion that we can have.<\/p>\n “But it is what it is, it’s not in my hands. Mr Horner is looking for a job – that everybody knows – everywhere. But what can I do? Just try to do my best to push the team, to rise them to be motivated, focus on what is better today.”<\/p>\n After the race in Baku, Hamilton was asked by Sky Sports whether he was confident Ferrari were on a good path under Vasseur’s leadership. The seven-time champion replied: “Yes.”<\/p>\n Vasseur was asked whether he was joking about Horner, and replied: “I was very serious.”<\/p>\n And asked whether he would consider working with Horner, he replied: “This you have to ask my assistant.”<\/p>\n That remark appears to be a reference to the circumstances surrounding Horner’s departure from Red Bull in July 2025.<\/p>\n Horner was accused of sexual harassment and coercive, controlling behaviour by a female employee. The allegation became public in February 2024 but the accusations were dismissed by Red Bull following two internal investigations.<\/p>\n