2024 F1 General Discussion Thread

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He's already basically admitted that the leaked conversations are real. Whether people deem that as inappropriate will be the subjective piece.

The only way he could have been cleared of inappropriate behaviour is if he was never investigated for it. From what I have read, the accusations used against him have been for "inappropriate behaviour" and or "controlling behaviour". I wouldn't be at all surprised if the investigation was purely on "controlling behaviour". I don't how anyone could keep a straight face and claim he didn't behave inappropriately.

Its all kicking off. Media frenzy. "A grubby stain on F1 that wont go away".

Full google drive dump here now available:

79 entries. Quite clearly his PA. From this its easier to see where the controlling aspect comes into it. Looks like she regretted it but he wanted to keep it going. Avoid entry 76 🤣. Fackin hell. Its as much embarrassing as anything else.

I think it's all mostly harmless. Yes he should not have been flirting with her he is married but she encouraged him at times too and then asks him to stop especially on the post about the leggings. He should be lucky she deleted them posts. Most of the pictures tgat we see look harmless.

The only info in statement yesterday was that he has "...always denied the allegations"

Sending stuff like this then deleting and asking her to delete. Tame but he knew himself it was out of order with his PA. He will be seen as a clownish figure after this also. Spanxy Horner the Red Bull F1 team leader. Will be surprised if he survives.

Defo out of boundaries. RedBull might have cleared him off any issues, in the public eye he is now damaged. Wondering what his wife said about that.

Assuming the screenshots are genuine - while a good chunk of the messages are harmless, it seems to get to the point where it’s no longer reciprocated and he’s pestering her video call at night/shower etc. She calls him up on it at some stages and you’d wonder whether the wording would be stronger if it wasn’t her boss.

As someone else said, he appears to know he’s in the wrong too when he’s deleting the conversation and asking her to also. Seems to be reference to her having a way out in the later messages too when the workplace relationship is strained.

Like there was clearly sharing of some kind done to help him “explode” at some stage which you’d question in its own right. Like at best, it’s highly inappropriate. Imagine it ticks multiple boxes on sexual harassment.

Bit of a mess for Red Bull regardless. Hope it gets sorted quick so we can go back to the racing.

AweI did not see that one. It was deleted from the ones I seen. That's not good.

Red Bull's parent company hired the barrister for that investigation and then tried to keep it all private. Not surprising to see why.

Horner's next press conference could be a circus. After all he's free to comment since the "independent" investigation has concluded.

Looks like RB decided to roll the dice that the evidence wouldn't get out. Now the bed is well and truly shat.

You'd wonder what that barrister was smoking. A suit for hire by the looks of it. Can you imagine the barrister and Horner going through those messages 1 by 1? 🤣 Horner must be 1 smooth talker to even get this far without being sacked.

Sure. Maybe she'll get her own barrister (not paid by Red Bull) for a second opinion.