F1 also presses Horner and Red Bull: “Resolve the investigations at the first opportunity”

Formula 1 also puts pressure on Christian Horner and Red Bull. The Series has sent a note to the Milton Keynes team in which it requests that the team “resolve the investigation into team principal Christian Horner at the first opportunity”. The case is well known: the approach to the new season of the world champion team was upset by an accusation of inappropriate behavior made against Horner by an employee. The parent company of Red Bull, the Austrian drinks giant, has appointed an external lawyer to take charge of the investigation. Last week Horner had an eight-hour conversation with this lawyer at an undisclosed location in London, before he appeared in public last Thursday at the unveiling of the 2024 World Championship car.

The messages

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The day after the presentation of the new car, De Telegraaf published new revelations according to which Horner had regularly sent sexual messages to the employee for a considerable period of time. Furthermore, the team principal himself would also have done everything to hide the case. In the weekend before the first publication in the Dutch newspaper, Horner’s lawyers offered at least 760 thousand euros to the employee’s lawyers to keep the news from getting out and avoid the scandal.

the note f1

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Now there is this intervention from Formula 1 a few days before the start of the pre-season tests scheduled in Bahrain from Wednesday. “We have noted that Red Bull has launched an independent investigation into the internal allegations within Red Bull Racing. We hope that the matter will be clarified as soon as possible, following a fair and thorough process,” the statement read. “F1 will make no further comment.” Right now”.

distraction

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When news of the affair emerged in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, Red Bull confirmed that it had launched an investigation and was taking the matter “extremely seriously”. Horner, who has led the team to seven drivers’ world championships and six constructors’ titles since he joined the team upon its arrival in F1 in 2005, categorically denies any allegations of improper conduct. At the car’s launch this week, 50-year-old Horner insisted it was “business as usual”, while admitting the investigation was “a distraction” for the team.