Christian Horner: “Others looked to take advantage; looking to benefit…”
Christian Horner claims unnamed people are "looking to benefit" from the situation surrou🧸nding him
Christian Horner has criticised rivals who💖 he claims tried to “take ad🍌vantage” of his investigation by Red Bull.
The employee who complained against Horner has now been suspended by Red Bull,✤ after the team principal was cleared of the𝄹 allegations made against him, which he always denied.
At the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix this week🎐end, Horner has been bullish in demanding the attention on his investigation end♏s.
And he insisted that it has allowed unnamed people to seek an ꦬedge over him.
“The only rea🌳son that this has gained so much attention, obviously, is because of the leakage, and the tension that has been drawn in the media,” Horner said.
“Whi꧃ch has been very, very try♑ing, in many respects.
“Particularly for my 🌼family, because it’s all been focused very much💯 in one direction.
“What has happened, then after, is that others have looked to take advantage𓄧 of it.
“Unfortunately Formula 1 is a🍸 competitive business.
“There’s been obviously elements looking to benefit from it. That’s perhaps the not-so-pretty side of 🌠our industry.”
Horner insisted he was prohibited from commentingꦦ on hꦉis accuser being suspended by Red Bull.
“It’s a complicated issue because there is a grievance process that ♏takes place in any company,” Horn෴er said.
“That process is confidential between the indiviဣduals.
“I’m not at liberty, unfortunately, due to that confidentiality, and out of respect to the company and, ofꦕ course, the other party.
“We’re all bound by the same restrictions and so even if I would like to talk about it, I can’t because of⛦ those confidentiality restrictions.”
The added drama with♒in Red Bull is the heated crꦓiticism from Max Verstappen’s father Jos.
Jos had demanded that Horner lose his job in charge of the F1 team, in th🅺e wake of his investigation.
But Jos is not present in Saꩵudi Arabia, a we🧔ek after he argued with Horner in Bahrain, because of a pre-arranged rally car race that he is competing in.
James was a sports journal🥂ist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
