Red Bull Racing’s Christian Horner, appeared on a podcast a year ago where he shared some of his first stepping stones to owning a team. He shared his personal struggles, his first learnings, and everything that goes into making a team.

Horner mentioned that there were people in his team that depended on him for paying off their mortgages and they were his ‘responsibility.’ He described how taxing it was to build something from the ground up. Before his entry to Red Bull, the man had a few ventures of his own that even led to maxing out his credit card!

Christian appeared on the podcast, ‘High Performance,’ which has over 95k subscribers.

In an attempt to give an insight into his journey, he shared, “When I first started out, I created this, what will be now, this Formula 2 team. I was having to do everything. So, I was booking hotels, I was doing the VAT returns, I was paying the wages on every friday.”

“I was booking the fuel, paying for spare parts, borrowing as much money from the bank. Constantly speaking with them every week about being overdone on the overdraft, the credit card was maxed out for paying for tyres. And it was a complete juggling act, you know? “

Horner explained that there were two mechanics, a truck driver, and an engineer. These four men solely depended on the Red Bull man, whose net worth is now $50 million, while he was only the age of 26. He called this experience ‘educational’ as it taught him all that he needed to learn about dealing with people and the pressures of having a business.

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Former Formula 3000 racer, Christian Horner, shared the defining moment in his driving career that made him realize that racing was not for him.

Christian Horner on why he couldn’t be an F1 racer

Further in the podcast, Horner touched on the subject of his racing days. He looks back on the Formula 3000 season of 1998. Describing his experience, he shed light on why he wasn’t fit to be an F1 driver.

He said, “I suppose the defining moment for me was, even before the season had started,  at the beginning of 1998 is when I drove out the pit lane in Portugal. And there used to be a really high speed turn, that was sort of one down shift straight into the corner. And there’s barriers about 3 meters from the edge of the tracks.”

He explained if you were to crash at that turning, it’d be a big one. “And Juan Pablo Montoya passed by me and I was coming out of the pit lane, into this corner, and I could see the angle that this car was at.  The commitment that he had, you know, the rim is trying to push its way out through the tyre. And he just kept this thing absolutely planted.”

“And I just knew at that thought, I can’t do that!”

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Christian Horner has played a massive role in Red Bull’s success so far. With the two major titles in the pocket, they are currently the most dominant team in the F1 world.