Red Bull couldn't have won four titles without Sebastian Vettel, admits Christian Horner

Sebastian Vettel

Red Bull team Principal Christian Horner has said that the team wouldn’t have won four consecutive constructors’ championships if they didn’t have Sebastian Vettel in the driving seat.

Vettel secured his fourth drivers’ championship with a win in the Indian Grand Prix. And the result was also enough for the team to retain their constructors’ title.

“I think it is all about the team. You need a great team and you need great drivers and for sure without Sebastian we wouldn’t have won four consecutive World Championships,” said Horner.

“He is now by right one of the all-time greats, he joins a select few. But it needs everything to work in harmony – you can have the best driver in the world, or the best designer in the world, but if you don’t have the right team and work as a team, it will never work,” he added.

Horner also said that he is not worried about the possibility of Vettel leaving the team and added that there is no reason for the German to do so.

“I don’t – I think every driver in the pit lane would like to be in one of our cars at the moment. Sebastian enjoys driving for the team, he has grown up within the team, he is very much part of the team, why would he want to be anywhere else?,” he said.

“I think he is focused on winning and whether that color is blue, red or silver, he has a tie to this team, he has had all of his success in cars designed in Milton Keynes, he has been a member of the Red Bull junior driver programme – Dietrich Mateschitz has backed him since he was 13 or 14 years of age – and of course there are no guarantees, but it is not about contracts or anything like that, it is about relationships and there is total trust in Sebastian from the team and there is total trust from Sebastian in the team,” Horner added.