Following Red Bull’s clearance of Christian Horner for sexually inappropriate behavior, a string of shock texts he wrote to a female coworker were made public.
The series of texts and images reveal details of personal discussions between the F1 boss and an unidentified employee, who seems to be a woman.
After being exonerated of the startling accusations yesterday, Christian Horner took off for Bahrain this morning.
Shortly before the internet leak, Horner’s spouse, Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, was allegedly scheduled to travel to Bahrain.Credit: On Friday, the second day of testing in Bahrain, Getty Horner was spotted closely examining his phone from the sidelines of the Formula One Paddock.
The WhatsApp communications, which also include mentions of Horner’s spouse Geri Halliwell, were distributed to hundreds of journalists via an anonymous email address.
Some of the texts are sexually provocative even though there don’t seem to be any explicit photos in them.
Given that the texts were made public just one day after a three-week internal inquiry into alleged unethical behavior came to an end, the leak represents yet another serious setback for Red Bull.
“I won’t comment on anonymous speculation but to reiterate I have always denied the allegations, I respected the integrity of the independent investigation and fully co-operated with it every step of the way,” Horner said in a statement in response to the leak.
