Christian Horner cleared of ‘inappropriate behaviour’ by Red Bull | 7D2IF97 | 2024-03-01 16:08:01
Christian Horner cleared of 'inappropriate behaviour' by Red Bull | 7D2IF97 | 2024-03-01 16:08:01
Christian Horner has been cleared of allegations of 'inappropriate behaviour' from a female employee and might be staying on as Purple Bull boss.
Horner, the longest serving Group Principal on the F1 grid, was being investigated after a female Red Bull employee accused him of 'inappropriate and controlling' behaviour.
An official assertion from the F1 staff launched on Wednesday stated: 'The unbiased investigation into the allegations made towards Mr Horner is complete, and Purple Bull can affirm that the grievance has been dismissed. The complainant has a proper of attraction.
'Purple Bull is assured that the investigation has been truthful, rigorous and impartial.
'The investigation report is confidential and accommodates the personal info of the events and third events who assisted in the investigation, and subsequently we won't be commenting further out of respect for all involved.
'Pink Bull will proceed striving to satisfy the very best workplace standards.'
The 50-year-old – husband of former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell – had beforehand stated: 'I absolutely deny any accusations.'
A hearing into the allegations took place nearly three weeks ago with Pink Bull eager for the matter to be resolved forward of the season opening Bahrain Grand Prix this weekend.
The unbiased lawyer employed to research the matter reportedly handed in their findings a couple of days ago within the form of a 150 page dossier.
Horner has served as Purple Bull's Group Principal since 2005.
The investigation and its fallout has forged a shadow over the build-up to the brand new Purple Bull marketing campaign with some of the successful groups in F1 history chasing more glory.
Purple Bull gained 21 of a attainable 22 grand prix races last season with Max Verstappen profitable 19 of to seal a hat-trick of world titles.
This week, Verstappen opted not to publicly back Horner.
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Requested if he was 100 per cent behind Horner, Verstappen stated: 'Nicely, I'm trusting the process, that's what's occurring right now.
'I do not need to get into that. Because it's not my case anyway, and I don't need to be involved with that.
'But as a group, yeah, we do belief that process and we simply should be patient, because there's no need to start out saying issues, begin screaming issues out loud. You need to be affected person. I feel I've discovered that through the years anyway.'
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