Quotes from Christian Horner

The main reason for our achievements is teamwork. It's quite simply the group of people that are here at Red Bull Racing and Red Bull Technology working as one unit.

I think it's a loss of energy to be worrying about other people's issues.

When you're at the top you're always going to be shot at.

I was always fascinated by speed... My father was always an enthusiast and once I found a passion in racing, I had something in common with him, so from my childhood onwards we spent a lot of time going to karting tracks and racing in the various categories.

Sixty points is massive, especially when you are racing a Mercedes with another 70 horsepower.

I have a long-term contract with the team and have said many times that there is only one Bernie Ecclestone. What he has done for Formula One is incredible and in my opinion he is irreplaceable.

Times change, things move. F1 used to have customer cars years ago. You could buy a car from March or from Ferrari and go racing.

Personally, I would go back to V12s, which make a tremendous noise, and have open cockpits and make the drivers heroes again.

The great thing about Daniel Ricciardo is you can't not like him, he's got a big smile, he loves what he does, he's a great personality.

Red Bull have always been very good at nurturing young talent - Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo are products of that - and it is important with Asian talent that people keep investing in it. There's a massive pool of people, for sure, and the next Sebastian Vettel is out there somewhere.

Red Bull has invested a huge amount in youth and should be commended.

I have total admiration for the Renault guys in the garage that are working their socks off, week in, week out.

The cap is a discussion about competitiveness, not about money. It's about trying to bring the top teams down to a level where the midfield teams feel they can compete. The reality is that whatever the level of spend there will always be teams that run at the front and teams that run at the back.

Twenty races is a tough season. It's a long year.

I did a deal with my parents to take a year out before university at the end of 1992 to try and forge a career in motor sport. I still haven't gone. I left school at 18 and that was it.

We do the best we can and the great thing about this sport is every two weeks you know whether it is good enough or not.

I think F1, ultimately, is man and machine at its absolute limit. It is modern day chariot racing.

There are no ultimatums for Renault other than we want to improve as quickly as we can.

It's so important to come up with the right specification of cars - they need to be loud, they need to be fast.

Sport is escapism. Sport is a release.

The costs in F1 are extremely high, it is down to the regulators to control those costs through having stable regulations, every time you change the rules, there is a huge cost involved.

The roll out of a new car is always filled with great anticipation; it's almost like going back to school for a new school year.

We want to run at the front, we want to be competitive and, in order to be competitive, we have to have a sensible power unit.

It is unnatural for drivers and team members to be sitting on their hands when we would usually be racing.