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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner is out, fired after 20 years at the helm of the F1 racing team that's won six Constructors championships with him. And it's the end of an era with his partnership with Max Verstappen, not because the four-time champion is leaving for Mercedes (yet?), but because Horner won't be leading the team anymore.

“[Horner] looks at Toto Wolff and sees a man [who] has risen in the same period to own a third of a Formula 1 team. Christian I’m sure will have half an envious eye on that and think ‘that’s exactly where I should be because I am of that stature ...

After 20 years, eight drivers’ titles, six constructors’ titles, and 124 race wins, it all ended with a tearful speech in front of the entire workforce at the Red Bull Racing factory in Milton Keynes on Wednesday morning.