Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has been fired after 20 years with the team, a team spokesperson told CNN Sports on Wednesday.

Red Bull closes a chapter spanning all the highs and lows of the team’s history—one that includes two dominant eras, first with Sebastian Vettel and later with Max Verstappen, but it the recent downtu...

The ousting of Horner — who has been replaced by French engineer Laurent Mekies, formerly head of Red Bull’s second team — comes at a critical juncture for Red Bull.