FIA President predicts that former Red Bull boss will be back in F1.

FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem says Christian Horner will make his F1 return - before making bizarre comment in which he said the former Red Bull boss “shouldn’t go and kill someone”.

Horner made his return to the F1 paddock for the first time since he was axed by Red Bull 12 months ago.

He was mobbed by TV crews and well wishers in the paddock as he made his way to the FIA motorhome.

Horner, who has been linked with a return at Alpine, Aston Martin and Ferrari, met with Ben Sulayem, who believes Horner should come back to the sport as he gets results.

“He will be back,” Ben Sulayem is reported as saying in The Daily Mail. “I would like to see that. I believe that when you have a team you have to forget about what the person is doing, his personality, and ask if you want the result or not?

Horner was relieved of his responsibilities by Red Bull following a battle for control of the team that had caused tension within the team.

It had come after Horner had been repeated cleared of any wrong doing in a dismissed claim of inappropriate behaviour by a female colleague.

Horner, 52, has made it clear he would like to return to the sport after turning Red Bull into multiple world champions. He told reporters at the British GP: “I would like to come back but it may be the autumn or next spring before anything happens. I am happy doing what I am doing but would like to return if and when the right opportunity presents itself. There are a lot of moving parts.”

Horner went on the grid before the race and hugged members of his old Red Bull team and had earlier joked that he would watch the race from the stewards’ office, and joked that he’d dish out to Mercedes and their boss Toto Wolff.

“Toto would get a penalty on lap one. And lap two and three.”