Red Bull boss Christian Horner did not always have it easy in his motorsport team management career, even losing himself a girlfriend with how he spent his first paycheck.
Horner gave up racing after his second season with Arden to focus on the management side, and when some serious cash finally came in, a cheque for £60,000, rather than spending that on the mortgage which his girlfriend’s mother pushed for, instead he bought a Porsche and soon found himself single. “I got £60,000 out of a deal when I stopped racing and the first thing I did was go and buy a car. And that was when the girlfriend dumped me, or the mother told her to dump me.”Horner’s move was compared by podcast host Dax Shepard to that of football legend David Beckham, who admitted in his documentary that he blew a $50,000 cheque from Adidas on a BMW M3.
At the time, Horner was driving around with cartoon character ‘Dennis the Menace’ plastered on his car, the sponsor believing this deal, rather than their licence for Spice Girls celebrations cakes, would be the true money-spinner.
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