Fresh details have emerged about Red Bull F1 team principal Christian Horner’s investi🦩gation following a complaint of inappropriate behaviour.

Horner, 50, is being quizzed by an independent lawyer on the allegations, which he has deni❀ed, today in London.

It is understoo🌊d tha💯t the claims made by a female member of staff relate to an allegation of controlling behaviour.

Sky Sports reporter Craig Slater has revealed the latest information on the inve♐stigation, which he says “could go on for a while”.

“I have been g🌳uided away from expecting an outcome to this investigation today,” Slater told Sky Sports News on Friday.

“I think you’re right not to call it a hearing which is what it’s been mostly described as. I think this is more of a meeting and an interview by the investigators with Christian Horner which will be, as I understand it, in a central London locatio🎉n today rather than at the team’s headquarters in Milton Keynes. So I’m not expecting an outcome today.

“Clearly [it is] a very significant day. We know that Red Bull are taking this investigation very seriously. There’s an allegation of inappropriate behaviour by🍸 Christian Horner by a female member of staf🥃f and I understand that relates to controlling and potentially coercive behaviour.

“That’s what we’re loo🀅king at here in te🎐rms of what Christian Horner is being accused of.

“He has emphatically denied the allegations and is going to work to ܫclear his name but this could be the first step, I’ve been led to understand, in a💜 process which could go on for a while.

“It’s th🎀e first intervi💫ew with Christian Horner, there might be the potential for a second interview, I think he is prepared for that and is expecting it to be quite a long day.

“As I understand that, I think we’re talking about a process which will start sometime mid-morning and will continue into the afternooﷺn, the investigators have pledged to be very thorough with this.

“For those thinking that this could either be concluded today or possibly in advance of the Red Bull launch, which is the 15th of February next Thursday, well that isn’t a certaint🀅y.

“This is not going to operate as I understand it to a Formula 1 timetable, 🐎it will operate to a timetable appropriate to get a clear and fair solution for both parties.”

Slater dismissed speculation that the investig♕ation is somehow related to an ongoing power struggle behind the scenes at Red Bull꧅.

"If you go online you'll read a lot about this. I think it's wrong tꦅo consider it in these terms,” he explained.

"The guidance I've had from Milton Keynes is that it's not a battle between Salzburg and Milton Keynes for control 🌃of this racing team.

"Remember this was an organisation founded by Dietrich Mateschitz, t⛦he billionaire part-owner of ♚the drinks firm. He passed away a few months ago and since then Oliver Mintzlaff, the former Red Bull Leipzig executive, has been running the general sporting operation.

"But it has been explained to me like this, it would be old fa♑shioned that an investigation like this would beﷺ governed by a power struggle going on elsewhere.

"You might read stories about Bernie Ecclestone potentially interv🍷ening on his friend Christian Horner behalf with the Thai majority owners of the Red Bull drinks firm - that's a kind of old fashioned view of the way F1 power poliඣtics used to unfold.

"There's a 🌄lot of talk of is Christian Horner as close to ace designer Adrian Newey as he used to be🐻. Is there a little bit of a gap there and does that make Christian Horner more expendable?

"Again, while that might have some kind of ramification if Chrꦚistian Horner does go, it should have no bearing whatsoever on this investiga꧒tion as it unfolds.

"So let's see what happens today and if we get any more detail on how this is going to p🦄🤪roceed.

"But my guidance is that this could well stretch past the the launch of Red ꦡBull's 20th racing car, which is next Thursday, and who knows, might it not even 🔴be concluded before pre-season testing begins."