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Christian Horner’s memoir puts F1 career ahead of Red Bull exit, review says

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Jake Nichol calls *Drive* a retrospective on Horner’s F1 career; he says the 2025 Red Bull dismissal is covered near the book’s end, not at its centre.

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Christian Horner’s memoir *Drive* does not make his 2025 dismissal from Red Bull its central subject, according to RacingNews365 reviewer Jake Nichol. Nichol says the episode is covered near the book’s end and describes the memoir as a “solid retrospective” on Horner’s Formula 1 career.

The review links two departures. Early in the book, Horner recalls watching Tony Purnell and David Pitchforth leave the Milton Keynes car park after Jaguar dismissed them. More than 20 years later, Nichol writes, Horner was sitting in his office for the final time as Helmut Marko and Oliver Mintzlaff waited for him.

*Drive* is published by Penguin on 22 October.

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  1. SOURCE'Drive' - a review of Christian Horner's long-awaited F1 memoirRacingNews365 English