{"id":10564,"date":"2024-06-12T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/?p=10564&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=10564"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:13:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:13:49","slug":"the-mind-of-a-f1-team-principal-christian-horner-on-f1-more-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/on-the-move\/ed-bernardon\/the-mind-of-a-f1-team-principal-christian-horner-on-f1-more-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mind of a F1 Team Principal: Christian Horner on F1 &#038; More | Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen on your chosen podcast platform \ud83c\udf99\ufe0f<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"embed-megaphone\">\n<iframe frameBorder=\"0\" height=\"482\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=TLFIE3484927332\"\nwidth=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><!-- Megaphone -->\n\n\n<div class=\"row podcast-social\">\n    <div class=\"col-12 col-sm-2\"><p>Follow us on:<\/p><\/div>\n    <div class=\"col\">\n        <a class=\"button itunes-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-future-car-a-siemens-podcast\/id1435259964\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iTunes<\/a>\n        <a class=\"button google-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBpcHBhLmlvL3B1YmxpYy9zaG93cy81YjhmMjdmMDYzNDg2ZWM1MWY4ZjI4ZTQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Podcasts<\/a>\n        <a class=\"button spotify-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3A0NqY8p2lHxcneSxLfkcV?si=q7HVVJYtTeGPdOmyAF23pQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a>\n        <a class=\"button stitcher-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/the-future-car-a-siemens-podcast\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stitcher<\/a>\n        <a class=\"button tunein-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Technology-Podcasts\/The-Future-Car-p1154372\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TuneIn<\/a>\n        <a class=\"button rss-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.acast.com\/public\/shows\/5b8f27f063486ec51f8f28e4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RSS<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">or watch on YouTube \u25b6\ufe0f<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Future Car Podcast | The Mind of an F1 Team Principal | Christian Horner | Part Two\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u4i4DNONUbU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background\" style=\"background-color:#00e6e6;color:#00e6e6\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/ed-bernardon\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/ed-bernardon\/\">Future Car Podcast<\/a>. We&#8217;re incredibly excited to bring you part two of our most recent interview with Christian Horner. If you missed the first episode, be sure to take a look <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/the-future-car\/ed-bernardon\/christian-horner-team-principle-at-red-bull-racing-part-one\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/the-future-car\/ed-bernardon\/christian-horner-team-principle-at-red-bull-racing-part-one\/\">here<\/a>. Christian has been a mainstay in Formula One since 2005, seeing multiple regulation changes and managing several incredibly talented drivers. Not to mention playing a key role in the titanic battle for the championship back in 2021. Let&#8217;s take a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background\" style=\"background-color:#00e6e6;color:#00e6e6\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to expect from this episode<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When one team dominates in F1 \ud83c\udfc6<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Typically, when there is a regulation change, one team will always nail the technology and come out of the blocks flying. Whilst not particularly good for the spectator, there will be convergence, bringing teams closer together, and this is what we&#8217;re seeing in 2024. We ask Christian about the concept of divergence and convergence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The influence Drive to Survive plays on the modern day fan \ud83d\udcfd\ufe0f<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Making its debut in 2019, Drive to Survive has played a key role in enhancing accessibility to Formula One teams. With it has come a whole new wave of fans, eager to cheer on their favourite drivers, and see what goes on behind the scenes on raceday. We ask Christian his thoughts on Drive to Survive, and how it has helped to change the sport for the better<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Christians&#8217; thoughts on the famous roar of combustion engines \ud83d\udca5<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As CEO of one of the most successful Formula One teams in the last two decades, its important that stakeholders like Christian ensure F1 adopts sustainable approaches, but also maintains the originality of the sport. One of these key areas is the roar of a combustion engine, and the challenges facing the sport as we move further into the 21st century. We ask Christian on future technologies, and how he sees the combustion engine evolving over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background\" style=\"background-color:#00e6e6;color:#00e6e6\"\/>\n\n\n<div id=\"accordion\" class=\"podcast-infonotes\">\n  <div class=\"card\">\n    <div class=\"card-header\" id=\"headingOne\">\n      <span class=\"mb-0\">\n        <button class=\"btn btn-link collapsed\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapseOne\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapseOne\">\n          Expand show notes for this Christian Horner part two episode        <\/button>\n      <\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <div id=\"collapseOne\" class=\"collapse\" aria-labelledby=\"headingOne\" data-parent=\"#accordion\">\n      <div class=\"card-body\">\n        <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christian-horner-obe\/?originalSubdomain=uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Christian Horner<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a former race car driver, racing team founder, and the current Team Principal at Oracle Red Bull Racing. He\u2019s also a star on Netflix\u2019s Drive to Survive series and the husband of Spice Girl legend, Geri Halliwell. Christian is a man who has and does it all, and he\u2019s here to tell us all about it in his interview with Future Car host, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/edward-bernardon-922442\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ed Bernardon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this part two interview, Christian and Ed discuss sustainability within F1 and how new regulations are affecting vehicle design. Christian also shares some of his thoughts on Drive to Survive and, of course, Ed finishes their conversation by asking Christian some rapid fire questions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tune in to hear more!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Some Questions Asked<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What can you tell us about the new powertrain and the challenges in developing it? (6:45)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What are some of the other things that you&#8217;ve done, or the sport in general has done, to make the carbon footprint less? (12:39)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Can you share maybe a memorable, or a funny moment behind the [Drive to Survive] camera that got cut? (16:05)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What&#8217;s the greatest insight [Drive to Survive] has taught you about yourself, about the team, or even about maybe some of the other Principles? (16:43)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What do you think racing will be like in the year 2100? (18:01)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>In This Episode You Will Learn\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How Christian feels about one team dominating in a sport (1:46)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What Christian thinks should be done with F1 rules to have fine margins between cars (3:15)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What Christian thinks the influence of Drive to Survive is (5:45)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How Christian feels about the possible loss of the engine \u2018roar\u2019 if combustion engines are replaced with more sustainable fuel sources (14:51)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Connect with Christian Horner<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christian-horner-obe\/?originalSubdomain=uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Connect with Ed Bernardon:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/edward-bernardon-922442\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/resource\/future-car-whitepaper\/87745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Future Car: Driving a Lifestyle Revolution<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/new.siemens.com\/global\/en\/company\/stories\/industry\/autonomous-and-connected-vehicles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Motorsports is speeding the way to safer urban mobility<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n      <div class=\"card\">\n        <div class=\"card-header\" id=\"headingTwo\">\n        <span class=\"mb-0\">\n            <button class=\"btn btn-link collapsed\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapseTwo\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapseTwo\">Expand Transcript<\/button>\n        <\/span>\n        <\/div>\n        <div id=\"collapseTwo\" class=\"collapse\" aria-labelledby=\"headingTwo\" data-parent=\"#accordion\">\n            <div class=\"card-body\"><p><b>[00:00] Ed Bernardon: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you&#8217;re a Formula One racing fan, you know all about the Netflix &#8220;Drive to Survive&#8221; series, the show where we watch F! managers, drivers, and team owners as the F1 season plays out in front of us. It&#8217;s full of excitement and suspense and does a great job of capturing the energy of a grueling F1 season. Here to tell me all about that energy is one of the stars of the hit show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[00:34] Ed Bernardon: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Welcome to part two of my interview with Oracle Red Bull Racing Team principal, Christian Horner. If you haven&#8217;t already, I suggest going back and listening to part one where Christian and I discussed his work culture, the biggest changes he&#8217;s seen during his time at F1, and the new F1 regulations. In this part two interview, Christian and I discussed major vehicle design changes, new regulations if prompted, his thoughts on &#8220;Drive to Survive, and the sustainability efforts within F1. Lastly, we finished off the interview with our Rapid Fire series, where I asked Christian more personal questions, such as what&#8217;s the first car he ever owned, and as always, what his living room on wheels looks like. And a few more. I&#8217;m Ed Bernardon, and this is part two, with Christian Horner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[01:24] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There&#8217;s a lot of people out there that are saying, when you get a team that&#8217;s very dominant, there&#8217;s this perception that that&#8217;s bad for the sport. Because when you have that last race on the last lap, it&#8217;s going to determine the champion versus when one team is dominant through the whole season. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve been asked this question before. Do you think that&#8217;s really true?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[01:46] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I think serial winning in any sport probably doesn&#8217;t ignite the fan passion as much as if I compare 2023 to 2021, that last lap in Abu Dhabi was the most viewed piece of sporting history. Certainly&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[02:02] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The most exciting lap in all Formula One.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[02:05] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8230;in the world that year, and probably for the decade before. So of course, everybody loves competition. But inevitably, sometimes when you have a big reset in regulations, there is divergence, but with stability, there is always convergence. And I think we&#8217;re now into that arena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[02:25]<\/b> <b>Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The American football team, where I&#8217;m from in Boston, is the New England Patriots, and they won for 20 years, multiple Super Bowls and all that. And now everybody hates them. Well, not anymore, because now they&#8217;re losing. But that&#8217;s what happens over time, everyone starts to not like the winner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[02:39]<\/b> <b>Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The following of Formula One is huge. But of course, you&#8217;re going to get people that are fans of Max, and you&#8217;ll have people that are fans of Lewis, or Fernando, or others. So, that&#8217;s sport, that&#8217;s what is part of it. People attach to who they like, who they can relate to, and who they admire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[03:02] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Is there something you think that you could do to the rules, maybe, that would still allow you to go all out? I guess you&#8217;re going to go all out to increase that gap no matter what. But could there be something done to the rules, maybe, to make it harder to increase the gap?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[03:15] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The biggest thing is if you want to have absolute fine margins between the cars, leave the rules alone. Just leave them for a long period of time, the cars will converge, and it will be very, very tight, and it&#8217;ll be really marginal gains, and then the driver will play a bigger role. That&#8217;s the reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[03:34] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So, as we move away from &#8217;22, it&#8217;s going to get tighter. So, do you think this coming year will be a little tighter?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[03:40] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I think the next two years, it&#8217;s only going to get harder. And then we have a big reset in &#8217;26.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[03:45] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Do it all over again. What about making the sport more exciting? For instance \u2014 just throwing some ideas out there \u2014 mandate more pitstop so the tires are fresher and they can drive full out the whole time, more refueling, or maybe something crazy like they did in Formula E, where they have fan booster.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[04:02] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> They don&#8217;t go gimmicky. I mean, false fuel stops and tire changes, what you&#8217;ll see is, we&#8217;ve been there and through all this before, you&#8217;ve only got to look back in history to see what the effect that these rules had. It&#8217;s that the races become very mathematical, strategized events that don&#8217;t encourage more racing. So, the refueling will be three elements of a sprint race that are three stints, for example, that are flat out. But I guarantee you that there&#8217;s less overtaking, because you haven&#8217;t got the variance of taking a very heavy car, fuel load coming off down to a very light car at the end of the race. Mandatory tire stops, when do you have to do them? And the strategists will always come up with the same answers. So, everybody ends up stopping on the same lap.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[04:50] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> You said something interesting there: If you start making it gimmicky, it&#8217;s not racing; it&#8217;s less racing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[04:57]<\/b> <b>Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> You have got to stay true to the DNA of what is Formula One. It&#8217;s a person and machine at the absolute limit of technology, of speed, of grip, of adhesion. And these cars do amazing things, and these drivers are incredible pilots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[05:13] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But if you think about what &#8220;Drive to Survive&#8221; has done. I remember looking at one episode, and I wanted to see how much time out of these 45 minutes I actually see a car on the track. And I forget which episode it was, but it wasn&#8217;t very many minutes. It was certainly less; it was probably in that 10 to 15 range. So, in effect, &#8220;Drive to Survive&#8221; has made Formula One more popular. But it&#8217;s made it more entertaining.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[05:36] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Absolutely, that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[05:38] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So, couldn\u2019t you do the same thing? Gimmick is probably going too far, but anything that makes it more unpredictable?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[05:45] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8220;Drive to Survive&#8221; isn&#8217;t making it more unpredictable. What &#8220;Drive to Survive&#8221; does, and it does very well, is it gets beneath the cover to expose some of the characters, some of the journeys, some of the challenges that each of the teams up and down the pit lane face and have, and it shows you some of the challenges. Though, watching a standard race you wouldn&#8217;t see. It is a TV drama; it&#8217;s the Kardashians on wheels. It&#8217;s had an immense impact on sports, it\u2019s brought a brand new and huge fan following to the sport, a much younger group of fans, a lot more female fans as well, which is fantastic. And then, of course, they&#8217;re then coming and watching races that had live events or on the TV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[06:28] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> We were talking about rule changes; there&#8217;s going to be a real big rule change in &#8217;26. So, still roughly 1000 horsepower, but the split between the internal combustion and the energy recovery side goes from 85\/15 to 50\/50. So, what can you tell us about the new powertrain challenges in developing it because that&#8217;s a really big change?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[06:51] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That&#8217;s a massive change. And I think that we&#8217;ve decided to make our own power unit in conjunction with Ford for 2026. So, with 30 months in, we didn&#8217;t have a single person or a facility, and now we have over 500 and a state-of-the-art facility, and are already running development engines. So, it&#8217;s a massive project, it&#8217;s a massive target. Of course, the regulations have evolved and changed for 2026 \u2014 sustainability playing a key role in that, and fuel also playing a key role as we go fully sustainable fuel. It is incredible to see the progress and development that is going on, as these cars become ever more efficient and sustainable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[07:35] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Engineering a power unit and manufacturing it is so much different than doing your car chassis. What was the biggest unexpected challenge that&#8217;s popped up as you&#8217;ve ventured into this?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[07:50] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Time is the biggest critical factor because we have two years to develop a state-of-the-art engine that is powerful, reliable, on its weight target, and can compete against Mercedes, Ferrari, Renault, Audi, Honda, companies that have decades of knowledge and experience. We&#8217;re taking a startup and going to be taking all the big boys on. So, it&#8217;s a daunting challenge, but we&#8217;re just going to apply all the same methodology, all the same culture, spirit, fun with the engine that we have with a chassis. It&#8217;s an incredible journey, and it&#8217;s incredible to see the progress that&#8217;s been made so far. But it&#8217;s a race against time; it&#8217;s a race against the clock because 2026 in the engine world is not so far away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[08:41] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There&#8217;s also talk about, on the chassis side, doing something like having DRS into the corners, or movable aero surfaces. If you go way back, everyone was scared to have movable aero surfaces, when aero wings first came out. Do you think that&#8217;s going to happen?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[08:54] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> As technology evolves, things like Active Aero, and so on, Active Suspension even, we&#8217;ve seen in other cars that we&#8217;ve been involved in, technology just keeps moving forward. So, it allows other solutions, but we&#8217;re still in the conceptual phase of these regulations. It&#8217;s advanced, but no regulations have yet been released on the chassis side for 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[09:16] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Do you think it&#8217;s a good idea to have movable aero surfaces?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[09:20] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It&#8217;s hard for me to quantify. I think you have to look at what you want the output to be. We want cars to be exciting. We want it to race closely. We want it to be competitive. We want to see wheel-to-wheel racing. There has to be a wow factor to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[09:33] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But you&#8217;ve just sort of hit on it. What do you really want? So, in the end, racing is a technology business, it&#8217;s about going fast, but it&#8217;s also a marketing business. If you add a movable aero surface, and the driver has to control that, and it adds a little unpredictability into the race that requires a new or a different kind of talent, and it makes it more competitive. I would imagine anything that does that would \u2014 and it makes the competition tighter \u2014 you&#8217;re going to expand that audience, right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[09:59] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Absolutely. I think that it&#8217;s interesting. Of course, Formula One has a responsibility from a sustainable perspective as well. So, that drives a lot of the regulations moving forward. I think Formula One can play a key role in that technology because we have some of the brightest and best engineering minds in the world working in this formula. And of course, it&#8217;s a competition that moves forward so quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[10:22] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So, carbon neutral by 2030. Do you think electric drive is going to play a part in that?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[10:30] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It could play a part. But I think there are other technologies that are equally as exciting. So, I think you&#8217;ve got to still be open-minded and not put all your eggs in one basket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[10:39] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So, Alejandro Agag says, recently, that it&#8217;s probably going to be a merging of Formula One and Formula E.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[10:50] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Well, I&#8217;m sure as the CEO of Formula E, or whatever his role is, he would love that. But Formula One is Formula One; it&#8217;s the pinnacle of motorsport. We still have combustion engines for the foreseeable future. The electrical part is playing a much bigger role; it\u2019s essentially a 50\/50 split now between electrical and combustion. Unless Formula E ends up with a combustion engine, I can&#8217;t see how much closer they&#8217;re going to get.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[11:14] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Do you think there&#8217;s a possibility that there&#8217;s enough similarity there? Formula E is a spec series, Formula One is not. Formula One with an electric drive in it, that&#8217;s not a spec series. I mean, you start to bring the pieces together. Maybe it could be hydrogen combustion, right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[11:34] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hydrogen is an interesting technology and something that we&#8217;re quite interested in on the advanced technology side of the business that we&#8217;re doing quite a lot of work and research into because I think, as an alternative, that can also be a very exciting route.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[11:47 Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> But then there&#8217;s also hydrogen combustion, but it could also be hydrogen through a fuel cell or something like that, or it could be pure batteries. If you took a step back and looked at all of those, which one do you think will float to the top if you had to guess? Which one will float to the top, not only from a sustainability standpoint but a sustainability and maybe even excitement or competition standpoint?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[12:11] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I think sustainable fuels have a key role to play in the future. And as I say, I think the combustion engine has got quite a bit of life left in it yet and I also think hydrogen as well could play a key role. I think electrical solutions have their pluses and minuses. So I think you&#8217;ve got to pursue all three, and then the strongest will prevail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[12:30] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There&#8217;s a lot more to&#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[12:32] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Sustainability than just making the motor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[12:35] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I think a lot of people don&#8217;t realize that when they think about carbon neutral by 2030. What are some of the other things that you&#8217;ve done, or really the sport in general has done, to overall make the carbon footprint less?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[12:48] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It&#8217;s all the other aspects as well because the cars are actually very efficient. A Formula One car has fewer emissions than an English cow during the course of the year. It&#8217;s all the support&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[13:00]<\/b> <b>Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> American cow as well?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[13:02]<\/b> <b>Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> American cows are more. English cows are reasonably carbon-efficient. I think it&#8217;s all the support failures. It&#8217;s aviation, it&#8217;s sea freight; it&#8217;s all of those elements. And of course, we&#8217;re doing an awful lot of recycling and sustainable energy. We&#8217;re investing as a group very much heavily in sustainable solutions to everything that we do. But I think it&#8217;s a global issue, not just a Formula One issue of continuing to drive that sustainable message.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[13:32] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And that&#8217;s a big part of it; it&#8217;s a global issue. So, if you can do it in racing, which is always pushing to do it fast and do it first, then it can apply elsewhere. Moving all your equipment from one race to another, that&#8217;s where all the emissions are coming from, and you&#8217;re doing a lot. What do you think the next thing is that you can do to make all these logistics and everything you do try and make the non-track part of sustainability?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[13:57] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Well, I think that we&#8217;re trying to take fewer stuff and to be less dependent on air freight and sea freight. But I think aviation fuel is a key development area moving forward, when you consider the amount of people that are in the air at any single point in time, it&#8217;s immense. These problems aren&#8217;t just related to Formula One, it&#8217;s every sport in the world or certainly every major sport in the world. So, it&#8217;s a collective effort. It&#8217;s not one that Formula One will solve; it&#8217;s one that we can play a role in and be responsible. But it&#8217;s going to take a very broad engagement globally to really address the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[13:37] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> If you ever put a power unit inside of a Formula One car that wasn&#8217;t &#8220;Wow.&#8221; If you did go to non-hydrogen combustion, even hydrogen with a fuel cell and batteries, what&#8217;s going to happen to all those fans that just love the sound?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[14:51] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I think they&#8217;re going to be very disappointed. It would be like going to a rock concert and turning the volume down so you can hardly hear \u2014 you can see the players but you can&#8217;t hear the music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[15:00] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That&#8217;s why you&#8217;re a fan of the fuels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[15:02] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I think the noise is part of the emotion of the sport and noise equates to speed; it equates to energy as well. I think that is a key ingredient of what we do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[15:17] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Gotta talk about &#8220;Drive to Survive&#8221; for a second. Is there anything about Formula One, or maybe one thing about Formula One that you think &#8220;Drive to Survive&#8221; has not managed to capture yet and communicate to its audience?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>[15:32] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> If you were to go a step further to really get into the workings of the sport, the meetings that we attend \u2014 there are very small glimpses, here and there, about the future of the sport, the regulations, how they&#8217;re achieved. I think all of that&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[15:49]<\/b> <b>Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> How do you make that exciting?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[15:51] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I mean, believe me, the meetings are exciting enough. Sometimes, the meetings are more exciting than racing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[15:58] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I&#8217;m sure that there&#8217;s so much video footage of everything that you&#8217;ve done, and they cut and splice and make the final episode. Can you share maybe a memorable or a funny moment behind the camera that got cut?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>[16:12]<\/b> <b>Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> They start to come through this time of year where you see the cuttings, but just of your parts before they are edited into an overall program. And on many occasions, I think, &#8220;Really, did I say that?&#8221; Or, &#8220;Did that really happen?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[16:27] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What was one of the things you said that you regret a little bit?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[16:30] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I don&#8217;t know, maybe it&#8217;s, &#8220;Do I really swear that much?&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[16:35]<\/b> <b>Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Do you?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[16:35] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I didn&#8217;t think I did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[16:36] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I would imagine when you&#8217;re in a series like this, you learn a little bit about yourself, like you just said. So, what&#8217;s the greatest insight about, maybe yourself, about the team, or even about maybe some of the other principals?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[16:51] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I think just be true to who you are. Be the best version of yourself that you can be. Don&#8217;t try to be something that you&#8217;re not. Because I think people see through it. I think people will always see through if somebody&#8217;s trying to portray something that they really aren&#8217;t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[17:12] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So, you and Toto have had your words over the years. Rivalry aside, how would you say the biggest difference is between the way you are as a team principal versus Toto?What&#8217;s your biggest style difference, would you say?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[17:27] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Probably a bit more British-centric, that I don&#8217;t show as much emotion, I don&#8217;t get perhaps as riled. People are just different, different styles. It&#8217;s not saying that one is right or one is wrong. I love the racing element, that&#8217;s a key element for me. I enjoy the commercial side of the business, working with partners, sponsors, and technical partners. And yeah, you&#8217;re judged ultimately on what you do on track at those 23 or 24 races a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[17:57] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is my last question till we get into the fun questions at the end. What do you think racing will be like in the year 2100?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[18:05]<\/b> <b>Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> We won&#8217;t be there to see it. Will they have wheels? It&#8217;s always interesting if you look at a film like &#8220;Back to the Future,&#8221; what their vision of the year 2000 was. Some things they were not far off from 1985 to the year 2000. Some things they were miles away on. So yeah, it&#8217;ll be interesting to see.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[18:25]<\/b> <b>Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> All right, Christian, thank you so much.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[18:26]<\/b> <b>Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Thank you very much indeed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[18:27] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I want to wrap things up with our rapid-fire section \u2014 quick questions and quick answers. Ready to go?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[18:32] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[18:32] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> All right, let&#8217;s do it. First car you ever bought or owned?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[18:36] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Volkswagen Beetle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[18:37] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Oh, Volkswagen. What color?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[18:39] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> White, like Herbie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[18:40] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Did you pass your driver&#8217;s test on the first try?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[18:43] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yes, within a couple of weeks of my birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[18:46]<\/b> <b>Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Oh, really. <\/span><b>[45:59 inaudible] <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">right out there. You don&#8217;t need a license to have a go-kart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[18:50] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I\u2019d applied for my test way before my birthday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[18:54] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What&#8217;s the fastest you&#8217;ve ever driven a regular car on the highway?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[18:58] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Always within the speed limit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[19:01] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So, you&#8217;ve never had a speeding ticket?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[19:03] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Oh, yes. I&#8217;ve had several speeding tickets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[19:06]<\/b> <b>Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Just real quick, your best speeding ticket story.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[19:09]<\/b> <b>Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Unfortunately, I live all on camera so they&#8217;re not ever that exciting. It&#8217;s nothing&#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[19:14]<\/b> <b>Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Oh, you just got caught by that, no interaction with the police.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[19:16]<\/b> <b>Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> No, there&#8217;s not been a high-speed pursuit or anything like that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[19:20] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So, the world of autonomous cars is coming someday. So, you&#8217;re going to have what&#8217;s called a &#8220;Living Room on Wheels.&#8221; You&#8217;ve got a five-hour car trip, you don&#8217;t have to drive, you can do anything you want. What&#8217;s inside your Living Room on Wheels? What do you want inside that car? It&#8217;s autonomous, you can have anything you want.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[19:42] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Well, first of all, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ll be that happy sitting in a Living Room on Wheels. You want to be able to engage with the outside world. You want to be able to interact, you want to be able to watch racing of real cars while sitting in your moving sitting room.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[20:00] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What person, living or not, would you like to have with you on that five-hour trip?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[20:06] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There are so many people that would have been interesting. Just from my world of racing, whether it was a Fangio or a Colin Chapman or some of the icons of the history of the sport.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[20:17] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> If you had to pick one of the current team principals for that ride, who would you pick?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[20:21] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> One of the current team principals&#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[20:25] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> You can leave Guenther Steiner if you want.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[20:27]<\/b> <b>Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I would pick Peter Bayer or Laurent Mekies; they both seem like nice guys at the AlphaTauri team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[20:33] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What&#8217;s your favorite Spice Girls song?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[20:35] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Favorite Spice Girls song? Now you&#8217;re testing me. &#8220;Wannabe,&#8221; there you go. That&#8217;s a big one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[20:44] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Who&#8217;s your second favorite Spice Girl?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[20:46] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> They are all joint second.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[20:49] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That&#8217;s a good answer. That&#8217;s why you&#8217;re in charge. Just to finish things, the last three questions, really quick. If you could magically invent one thing, what would it be?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[20:59] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> If I could magically invent one thing, it would be a time machine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[21:05] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Tell us something about yourself that your family and friends don&#8217;t know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[21:08] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I scratched my brother&#8217;s car when I was 18 and made him think that he&#8217;d done it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[21:15] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Did you really do that?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[21:17] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> He was away at university. I borrowed his car. Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[21:20] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And he doesn&#8217;t know this?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[21:21] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> He probably does now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>21:23] Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> All right. And the last question, I know who you think is going to come in first this year. What team is going to come in second in the constructors?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[21:32] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I don&#8217;t care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[21:34 Ed Bernardon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Oh, excellent answer. Thank you so much, Christian. Thank you for joining us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>[21:38] Christian Horner:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Cheers! Thank you.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n        <\/div><!-- end #collapseTwo -->\n    <\/div><!-- end .card -->\n    <\/div><!-- end #accordion -->\n\n<div class=\"bio-block row\">\n    <div class=\"col-3 order-first bio-pic\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2024\/06\/Christian-head-shot-1.jpg\" alt=\"Christian Horner | Team Principal &amp; CEO of Red Bull Racing\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"col-9 bio-info\">\n        <div class=\"bio-header\">\n            <h4 class=\"speakerintro\">Christian Horner | Team Principal &amp; CEO of Red Bull Racing<\/h4>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-biography\">\n            <p>Christian\u2019s path to the top rung of the Formula One management ladder began behind the wheel, as a talented young racer. At the age of 25, he founded the Arden International race team and quickly built the squad into a formidable winning machine. Following this success, Christian was asked by Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz to run the Red Bull Racing Formula One team from its inception in 2005, making Christian the youngest F1 Team Principal at the age of 31. Christian has since led the team to thirteen world titles (six World Constructors\u2019 Championships and seven World Drivers\u2019 Championships). Then in 2021 Christian led the Team to become a fully autonomous independent Team by matching chassis design with its own power unit design and production facility, Red Bull Powertrains. He is also an Ambassador for the Wings for Life charity that is dedicated to finding a cure for spinal cord injury.<\/p>        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-contact\">\n            <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rob-gray-4a430932\/?originalSubdomain=uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connect with Christian on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bio-block row\">\n    <div class=\"col-3 order-first bio-pic\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/06\/bio-pic-eb-2.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Bernardon\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"col-9 bio-info\">\n        <div class=\"bio-header\">\n            <h4 class=\"speakerintro\">Ed Bernardon<\/h4>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-biography\">\n            <p>Ed is currently VP Strategic Automotive Initiatives at Siemens Digital Industries Software. Responsibilities include strategic planning and business development in areas of design of autonomous\/connected vehicles, lightweight automotive structures and interiors. He is also responsible for Future Car thought leadership which includes hosting the Future Car Podcast and development of cross divisional projects. 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