As of: March 18, 2024, 7:23 p.m
By: Sascha Mehr
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Team boss Christian Horner could now be facing dismissal from the Red Bull Formula 1 racing team.
A power struggle is raging internally, and U2 suddenly also plays a role.
Munich – The mood at the Formula 1 racing team Red Bull is still bad and team boss Christian Horner is in the middle of it all.
The husband of ex-Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is said to have behaved inappropriately towards an employee, but was initially exonerated after an internal investigation by the parent company of his racing team.
Will there be a layoff after all?
Red Bull team boss Horner about to be fired?
The Formula 1 leadership and the world association FIA are said to have requested the results of the Red Bull Group's internal investigation, which acquitted Horner of the allegations.
The fact that the name of the independent lawyer who had investigated the matter was not even mentioned fueled distrust among observers.
The Brit demanded again and again that there was enough of the questions, the accusations, the data leaks in the scandal surrounding the Red Bull team boss's allegedly abusive behavior towards an employee.
“It's a stressful time.
When children are involved, families, parents, when your marriage is examined, then that's not nice," said Horner before the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Does Red Bull team boss Christian Horner have to go now?
© IMAGO/Jakub Porzycki
So far there have been no consequences for Horner, but according to consistent media reports from the online portal
f1-Insider
and TV channel
Sport1
, the team boss is now facing dismissal.
The Thai majority shareholder Chalerm Yoovidhya was initially behind the Briton, but is now said to have joined the council of the Austrian minority of Red Bull GmbH around CEO Oliver Mintzlaff and heir Mark Mateschitz and apparently wants to throw the team boss out the door.
Verstappen camp calls for team boss Horner to be kicked out
Another reason that could have caused the Red Bull racing team to suddenly rethink: The rock band U2 is reportedly planning to help the Red Bull employee, who has since been fired, with a song.
Her brother is said to be the son-in-law of U2 guitarist “The Edge”.
As the online portal
f1-Insider
reports, the title of the planned song will be “Don't be horny, be Christian”.
Yoovidhya and Red Bull probably fear the band's wide reach and influence.
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Max Verstappen's father Jos fears a break in the racing team and also called for the team boss to leave.
Verstappen Snr recently told the English newspaper
Daily Mail
that Horner was playing the victim “while he is the one causing the problems”.
The team runs the risk of being torn apart.
"It can not go on like this.
It will explode,” said the former racing driver.
After the race in Saudi Arabia, Christian Horner commented on the situation at Red Bull to the pay TV channel
Sky
: “There is a huge story being made around it, but we are a team.
No one is bigger than the team and the team includes various units and a total of more than 1,400 people and everyone has a role to play.
This goes from the very bottom to the very top.
Without these people showing performance, we would not be able to achieve this performance.
Unfortunately, there was a lot of speculation this weekend, but our focus is on the racetrack.” It is doubtful that he will continue to be part of this team in the future.
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