Christian Horner invites F1 drivers to lavish home for BBQ… but only half turn up after he is trolled for ‘bland’ food
A HOST of Formula One stars left Christian Horner red-faced after snubbing a barbecue at his home.
The 49-year-old multi-millionaire chief of the Red Bull F1 team sent out an invite for the bash at his house during the British Grand Prix weekend – where his man Max Verstappen triumphed again.
All 20 drivers were invited to come along after qualifying on Saturday at Silverstone.
Horner shares TWO stunning country homes with wife, Spice Girl Geri, in Oxfordshire and Hertfordshire with both less than an hour away from the iconic British race track.
The former property is, perhaps, the most lavish and most shared online – boasting its very own duck pond, which they use for boating.
Their farm also houses three miniature donkeys, horses and goats in the estate’s stables.
And it’s the property in Oxfordshire that gets the most love from Geri, 50, on Instagram, who regularly shares candid snaps of her family life.
It remains unclear which drivers accepted his invitation, although Red Bull duo Verstappen and Sergio Perez are both likely to have attended.
But Horner revealed that a number of their rivals opted to stay away despite him insisting that everybody was welcome.
When asked if he was joined by all 20 drivers, Horner replied: “No, no, about half the grid.”
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That did not stop Horner from taking the role of head chef, but cheeky fans soon mocked him for cooking up a “bland and flavourless” BBQ.
He shared a snap on Instagram of himself behind the BBQ, which was stacked with chicken, burgers, sweetcorn and other veg, with tongs in hand.
But some of the comments left a nasty taste, with one saying: “Omg there’s no flavour there WTF.”
Another troll said: “Is that chicken? It’s so pale hahaha.”
A fellow cruel fan said: “All that money and no taste…”
As another joked: “Married a Spice Girl yet there are no spices to be seen on that food.”
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Horner, who last year celebrated Verstappen regaining the F1 Championship, is stepdad to Geri’s daughter Bluebell Madonna, 17, and the couple share a son, Montague, who is 6.
He also has another daughter, Olivia, 10, from a previous relationship with ex-partner Beverley Allen.
Horner did also reveal how he was intrigued by the conversations of those that did attend as he spoke about the dramatic race on Sunday.
Verstappen took the chequered flag to register his sixth straight victory despite the Dutchman being overtaken by his McLaren rival off the line.
Horner said: “You could see that he [Verstappen] enjoyed racing with Lando today.
“There was a lot of respect between the two. He’s a racer, he likes to race.
“I had all the drivers at my house for a barbecue last night and you immediately see that they immediately start talking about the moments on the track, what happened here and there, even about what happened in Formula Three or in karting.”