Red Bull warned off-track F1 drama is ‘beginning of the end’
Red Bull have been war🎃ned about repercussions from the saga which overshadowed🤪 the team last year.
The off-track saga surrounding Red Bull ahead of the 2024 F1 season could be “the beginning of the end”, believes Gerha꧙rd Berger.
Red Bull’s start to last season was overshadowed by a scandal surrounding team principal Christian Horner,✤ who was accused - and later cleared - of inappropriate behaviour towards a female colleague.
Allegations of coercive, abusive behaviour and sexual harassment were made ag💙ainst Horner but he was cleared following an internal investigation, while the woman who complained had her appeal dismissed.
The saga created turmoil within the team and resulted in messy political infighting involving 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s father, Jos, who called for Horner ꦯto stepꦫ down.
Horner remained in post and while Red Bull slipped to third place in the constructors’ championship, Verstappen was abꦅle to clinch a fourth successive drivers’ world title.
Red Bull warned by ex-Toro Rosso chief
But Berger, who was the co-owner of 🌜Red Bull’s sister team Toro Rosso when th🌸ey debuted in F1 in 2006, reckons the controversy will still impact the Milton Keynes squad.
“It is ಌoften the beginning of the end when such is🌠sues are brought up,” Berger told .
“Formula 1 is so complex and so competitive that you can only succeed if ev🐬eryone in the team pulls together, if everyone agrees and communicates well with each other.
“The Red Bull brand has always radiated cheerfulness and a c♔ool i♌mage. All of a sudden, everything changed.”
Berger also feels Red B𒀰ull no longer communicate as clearly or directly as they did before their late founder Dietrich 🌠Mateschitz died.
“Completely untypical for thꦬe team, there are no clear statements anymore,” he added.
“Let’s take Perez as an example. That he no lℱonger delivers the performance has been seen.
“That they still gave hi🔯m a contract again was not understood by anyo🧸ne in the industry.
“There may have been reasons, suchౠ as marketing pressures or contr🗹actual obligations. But when things didn’t improve afterwards, they gave him three more races, then two more, and avoided making a decision.
“I couldn’t see a clear line there. In Mateschitz’s time⛎s, Red Bull was always famous for its clarity.”
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