Christian Horner had already been acquitted in an earlier trial and now an appeal has also ended in his favor.
The 2024 F1 season will go down in history as a special season, which is actually mainly due to the side issues. The most talked about incident is still the alleged unwanted behavior of Christian Horner. Did he really send dirty messages to a female employee or not?
Court case
An earlier lawsuit tried to answer that question. At that time, the answer was ‘no’: Christian Horner had done nothing. The employee was subsequently suspended. So she is still working for Red Bull, but not at work. And as is well known, Horner is still at the pit wall at every race. But that was not the end of the story.
Profession
After all, with a bit of perseverance, you can continue for a while. For example, the employee still appealed against Christian Horner to have the case reviewed by an independent lawyer. But the lawyer has now rejected the appeal. This is all happening internally at Red Bull, with independent lawyers. So there could still be an appeal if the employee decides to take the case to court. The intentions to do so are not yet known.
Horner remains
However, there is no reason to remove Christian Horner from the team. So he will remain team boss for a while. However, the Red Bull team is starting to show some cracks now that Newey is leaving the tent, Max has to hand over the win to others and Jos Verstappen also seems to be clashing with Horner. We are very curious how (and especially with whom) Red Bull will enter the 2025 season. (via De Telegraaf)
