F1 News Today: Christian Horner return blow as Lando Norris reveals rivals' poaching attempts

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F1 News Today: Christian Horner return blow as Lando Norris reveals rivals' poaching attempts

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Chris Deeley Editor

Experienced sports writer covering F1 and other motorsports since 2023

Sunday 30 August 2026 10:45 Updated: 10:52

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Christian Horner just can't catch a break.

The former Red Bull supremo has been looking for a way back into F1 since more or less the moment he left it, but fewer avenues have opened than he may have initially hoped.

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Lando Norris has revealed that he was contacted by other teams looking to steal him from McLaren before he signed his huge new contract extension.

The reigning world champion's new deal, announced on Saturday, ties him to the team through the end of the 2030 season, extending his time with the papaya team to over a decade.

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Toto Wolff is enjoying life after Christian Horner - 'No bulls*** and lies'

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has spoken about his Red Bull counterpart Laurent Mekies in glowing terms, in sharp contrast to his adversarial relationship with the Frenchman's predecessor.

Wolff and former Red Bull team principal Christian Horner had a long and fractious rivalry which spanned more than a decade, with some of their more famous moments being caught on Netflix cameras for their Drive to Survive docuseries.

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FIA staff forced to go undercover for safety during controversial Hamilton vs Verstappen title fight

And so, we repeat the GPFans plea to F1 fans around the world: Please be normal to people involved in the sport, and to other fans.

Speaking of people not going that, former F1 deputy race director Claire Dubbelman has revealed that FIA personnel have been instructed at certain events not to leave the track in their FIA uniforms.

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F1 star sends out call to rival teams: 'They should hire me'

Yuki Tsunoda has urged teams to take a chance on him for the 2027 season, after a surprise start at the Dutch Grand Prix last weekend.

The former Red Bull driver got his first start in the new generation of F1 cars at Zandvoort on late notice, replacing Liam Lawson when the Racing Bulls star got called up to Red Bull in relief of the injured Isack Hadjar.

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Fernando Alonso paid by TWO teams for one season after launching Ferrari tirade

One of the biggest stories of the 2010s was Fernando Alonso's messy exit from Ferrari and the circumstances surrounding it.

After five seasons and two close shots at winning the F1 title, Alonso left Ferrari with still two years to run on his Ferrari deal at the end of 2014, furious with the team's lack of competitiveness.

His final season with the team was one of Ferrari's worst. They went without a race win for the first time since 1993, with the two-time world champion having to settle for two podiums. To illustrate how bad the Ferrari F14 T was, team-mate and 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen failed to record a single top three finish.

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Fernando Alonso got paid TWICE after Ferrari exit.

Carlos Sainz reveals first 'warning sign' at Williams ahead of 2026 struggles

Carlos Sainz has opened up on Williams' struggles in the 2026 season, revealing the moment that he realised things were worse than he thought.

The British team infamously missed pre-season shakedown testing in Barcelona because their cars weren't ready, but Sainz has revealed that he wasn't overly concerned at the time.

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McLaren and Red Bull have drawn F1 battle lines with Lando Norris and Max Verstappen contracts

Max Verstappen and Lando Norris have a chance to do something very unusual in F1 history after signing their new contracts this month.

Other sports have their own legendary one-team men – Giggs, Maldini, Kobe, Jeter, Ernie Banks, Elway, Marino, so on, and so forth – but F1 truly lacks an equivalent star in anything like the modern era. Jim Clark and Lotus maybe, but that's going back more than half a century.

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