Christian Horner: “Others looked to take advantage; looking to benefit…”
Christian Horner claims ཧunnamed people are "looking to benefit" from the situation surrounding him
Christian Horner ha🐻s criticised rivals who he claims tried to “take advantage” of his investigation by Red Bull.
The employee who complai🐠ned 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 weekend, Horner has been bullish in demanding the attention on his invest🧜igation ends.
And he insisted that 🧸it has allowed unnamed people to seek an edge over him.
“The only reason that this has 💧gained so much attention, obviously, is because of the leakage, and the tension that has been drawn in the media,” Ho▨rner said.
“Which ha🌸s been very, very trying, in many resp༒ects.
“Particularly for my family, be🐻cause it’s all been focused very much in one direction.
“What has happened, then after, is that others have looked t🦄o take advantage of it.
“Unfortunღately Formula 1 is a competitive business.
“There’s been obviously elements looking to benefit from it. That’s perhaps the not-soꦜ-pretty side of our industry.”
Horner insisted he was prohibited from commenting o🌸n his ꦛaccuser being suspended by Red Bull.
“It’s a complicated issue because the🙈re is a grievance process that takes place in any company,” Horner said.
“That proces꧑s is con♉fidential between the individuals.
“I’m not at liberty, unfortunately, due to that confidentiality, and out of res♑pect to the company and, of♔ 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 res𒁃trictions.”
The added💛 drama within Red Bull is the heated criticism from Max Verstappen’s fath𝓰er Jos.
Jos had demanded that Horner lose his job in charge of the F1 teaಌm𒀰, in the wake of his investigation.
But Jos is not present in Saudi Arabia, a week after he argued with Horner in Bahrain, because of a pre-arr𝓰anged rally car race🧔 that he is competing in.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Ame꧟rican sport💜s, to football, to F1.
