SINGAPORE (AP) — Christian Horner is calling up “pretty much every team owner” as he tries to get back into Formula 1 after being ousted by Red Bull, Aston Martin team principal Andy Cowell said Friday.
Reports have linked Horner with multiple teams, including Aston Martin, since he agreed his departure as a Red Bull employee last month after 20 years.
One of the most successful and highest-profile management figures in F1 history, Horner was removed as team principal and chief executive in July as Red Bull's form dipped.
“I had a chat with Lawrence (Stroll, Aston Martin owner) this morning to find out what he knows. It looks as though Christian’s ringing up pretty much every team owner at the moment,” Cowell said Friday ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix.
“I can clearly say there are no plans for involvement of Christian either in an operational or investment role in the future.”
Aston Martin already has F1 car design great Adrian Newey, who created Red Bull's title-winning cars under Horner's leadership.
U.S.-owned Haas has also said there's been contact with Horner, according to comments from team principal Ayao Komatsu in a report by auto racing website The Race on Thursday.
Horner approached the team and held an “exploratory” conversation but “nothing’s going any further," Komatsu was quoted as saying.
Another option could be Alpine, where Horner's friend Flavio Briatore is in de-facto charge as executive advisor under majority owner Renault. Managing director Steve Nielsen said he didn't know about any contact but couldn't rule out a role for Horner in future.
“As far as I know, no,” Nielsen said when asked if Horner had approached his team, “but Flavio and Christian are old friends, that’s no secret. What they’ve talked about, I don’t know. Everything I see and everything I know, there’s no truth in Christian coming to Alpine, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen. This is Formula 1, after all.”
Some teams have distanced themselves from Horner, whose Red Bull tenure ended amid turmoil on and off the track.
New team Cadillac, which is joining the grid next season, issued a strong denial in August of rumors it might work with Horner. Williams team principal James Vowles said Friday his team had not had any contact with him either.
“I think you should always welcome a conversation and there’s no point closing the door,” Vowles said, but added: “I think we’re very happy with the structure we have and it’s working, so I don’t see any reason to make any changes to that.”
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FILE - Red Bull team principal Christian Horner sits outside the team garage at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park, in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was convicted and then cleared of killing rap star Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC could be freed within days after a judge granted him $ 1 million bond on Monday.
Karl Jordan Jr. wasn't automatically let go because he still faces drug charges unrelated to the pioneering DJ's 2002 death. For now, Jordan remains behind bars while prosecutors decide this week whether to appeal the bond decision. If they don't, he'll go free as soon as his bond paperwork is in order.
“There's a real chance, Mr. Jordan, that you may be released in the very near term,” U.S. District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall said. If that happens, she added, “I wish you luck. And you will stay out of trouble.”
Jordan quietly agreed as more than a dozen of his relatives and supporters looked on from the audience. Some have attended nearly six years of court dates in his case and 17 agreed to cosign his bond. Jordan’s loved ones also agreed to put up Southern properties worth a total of $525,000. If released, he will be under electronic monitoring.
His lawyers declined to comment after court.
Jam Master Jay, born Jason Mizell, was fatally shot in his New York City recording studio in 2002. As the DJ in Run-DMC, he helped rap reach music's mainstream with 1980s hits including “It’s Tricky” and a remake of Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way.” He later mentored up-and-comers including a young 50 Cent.
After the case went cold for years, Jordan and Ronald Washington were arrested in 2020. Washington, now 61; and Jordan, 42, denied the charges.
A jury convicted the men in 2024, after hearing eyewitness testimony that Jordan shot Mizell while Washington blocked the door. But in December 2025, DeArcy Hall unraveled Jordan’s conviction and acquitted him, while upholding the verdict against Washington.
Her reasoning centered on whether prosecutors had proven that the killing was narcotics-related, a requirement of the federal murder charge in this case. Witnesses testified that after Run-DMC’s heyday, Mizell dabbled in cocaine deals to pay his bills and was providing drug-trade opportunities to Jordan and Washington — the DJ's godson and old friend, respectively.
The judge concluded that the jury heard sufficient evidence that Washington was bitter at Mizell about the collapse of a planned drug transaction in Baltimore. But there wasn't such proof, “just conjecture," that Jordan had the same animus, DeArcy Hall wrote.
Prosecutors are appealing her decision to acquit Jordan of Mizell's killing.
Jordan's attorneys argued that he ought to get bond while that appeal and the outstanding drug and weapons charges play out.
Jordan, whose girlfriend is a city jail official, “is not a danger to the community. But his continued detention is a danger to Mr. Jordan," lawyer John Diaz said at a March 13 hearing. Jordan was stabbed and seriously wounded in Brooklyn’s troubled federal jail last year; other inmates were charged with assaulting him.
Prosecutors deplored the stabbing but urged the judge to continue detaining Jordan, maintaining that he remained a flight risk.
DeArcy Hall concluded Monday that Jordan's bond package outweighed concerns that he might flee. But she told him, “At the end of the day, sir, bond is about you giving me your word.”
“Yeah, I'm aware of that,” he replied.
Turning toward the audience, she sought to make sure his family also got the message that Jordan needs to comply with bond conditions.
“You all know I do not play,” the judge warned. “We all understood, folks?”
A collective “yes, your honor” rose from the audience.
Meanwhile, prosecutors are in plea talks with a third man charged in Mizell's killing, prosecutors and his lawyers told the judge in a March 12 letter. The third man, Jay Bryant, was indicted in 2023 after his DNA was found on a hat at the shooting scene. He has pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors claimed that Bryant slipped into the studio building and opened a back door for Jordan and Washington, having met them through a mutual acquaintance. Jordan's lawyers have argued that the case against Bryant raised doubts about the now-dismissed allegations against Jordan.
FIL - In this Feb. 22, 2002 file photo made in Los Angeles, the late Rap legend Jam Master Jay, is shown. (AP Photo/Krista Niles, File)
