Sky Sports Exclusive: Christian Horner Q&A

Following the team's third successive double title success, the Red Bull boss talks to Sky Sports News' Craig Slater about 2012, Sebastian Vettel and what the future might hold for the World Champion, the team and himself...

There are those who will try to qualify his success and perhaps say that he had a faster car... and Ferrari are saying that they only competed in eighteen races out of the twenty. But you would have a response to that, wouldn't you?
CH: "Well, you look at a season as twenty races and let's not forget that Sebastian was leading in Valencia when the alternator expired and that gifted Fernando a win at home that he wouldn't have otherwise had and at Monza he was set for fourth or fifth before suffering the same failure. These things tend to even themselves out over the course of a season and Sebastian has had as much bad luck, and probably more, than Fernando because he has had those mechanical issues to deal with. But that's the way it goes and, as I say, it tends to even itself out over a season. "It's been a fantastic season for F1. It's been stressful, it's been intense and it's been a herculean effort from every member within our team to retain both trophies at Milton Keynes." Sebastian was congratulated at the end of the race by Michael Schumacher. In a sense, is he racing against the likes of Schumacher and Fangio now and would you say that if you can keep this team together at Red Bull then you could deliver things on a parallel with what Schumacher has achieved in the past?
CH: "Well, to achieve a triple double World Championship - in 2010, in 2011 and in 2012 to win both the Constructors' and the Drivers' World Championship - is something that very few others have achieved and is testimony to our team. "The team is working fantastically well, we have some great members of the team with great technical leadership from Adrian Newey, but it has to flow through the whole organisation and I think what we have achieved with sustained success is qute phenomenal. "Yet what makes it all the more remarkable is the level of our opponents, they are great teams - Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes-Benz. These are big teams we are going up against. We are taking nothing for granted and we have no idea what 2013 might hold. For now, we are going to savour this moment but obviously very quickly focus does change to 2013 and with continuity hopefully we can have a competitive year and build on from the lessons of 2012 through into 2013. But, for now, we are going to take this moment and enjoy it." And for yourself, as the Team Principal of a team with six championships in three years, is your future still here at Red Bull, are your ambitions being fulfilled and are you happy where you are?
CH: "Absolutely. I joined the team from the beginning and it's been a phenomenal journey. It's the most incredible thing to be sitting here having achieved six World Championships in three years and that is all down to working as a team, working as a group, getting the most out of the drivers and having a very special talent in Sebastian who has delivered in the Drivers' World Championship. "But there's an awful lot more we want to achieve. This is only our eighth season in F1 and we want to go on and achieve more. There is a great motivation and determination within the team to keep this momentum going into the future."