Christian Horner praises ‘fantastic’ wife Geri Halliwell as he opens up on F1 scandal

Christian Horner has thanked his woman Geri Halliwell for her enactment passim the ungraded involving the Red Bull brag that rocked Formula 1 astatine the commencement of 2024.

In February, it was revealed that Horner was nether probe aft a pistillate worker of Red Bull Racing had accused him of ‘inappropriate and coercive behaviour’.

The Red Bull squad main was cleared connected the eve of the play opener successful Bahrain but the ungraded lone escalated erstwhile texts and images supposedly related to the probe were leaked.

The unidentified claimant, who was aboriginal suspended by the F1 team, chose to entreaty her lawsuit but successful August it was announced that erstwhile again Horner was cleared of immoderate wrongdoing.

The 51-year-old joined erstwhile Spice Girl Halliwell successful 2015 but the saga was said to person enactment large strain connected their relationship, though she notably stood by her hubby astatine the archetypal fewer races of the season.

Horner has been antecedently precise hesitant to talk astir the substance but has present opened up successful an interrogation with the Daily Mail.

He said: ‘What happened astatine the commencement of the twelvemonth felt similar a cleanable storm. In life, it is simply a large acquisition that the much occurrence you have, the much of a people you become.

‘You conscionable enactment existent to yourself and I americium precise fortunate that I person got a tremendous family. My woman has been unbelievable, fantastic. Your spouse is ever the 1 you stock your difficulties with.

‘She has been perfectly outstanding and hugely supportive. She saw done a batch of things from having an extracurricular position and it is bully to person that value and measure. It is hugely important.

‘You larn astir yourselves successful times of trouble and I was perfectly determined that we would navigate done the hard waters.’

It’s been a turbulent twelvemonth for Red Bull connected and disconnected the way with the squad starting retired arsenic the ascendant unit but losing gait to McLaren and Ferrari astir the halfway mark.

Star operator Max Verstappen looks acceptable to clinch a fourth-straight drivers’ rubric astatine the Las Vegas Grand Prix this weekend, but Red Bull are apt to miss retired connected the constructors’ title to 1 of their rivals.

Several cardinal members of unit person near implicit the past months, including design genius Adrian Newey, portion Horner has a long-running feud with Verstappen’s begetter Jos who publically called for the squad main to resign successful the aftermath of the scandal.

However Horner says his squad became much agreed than ever arsenic the saga unfolded, adding: ‘In times of trouble and erstwhile stones are being thrown, it really galvanises a team.

‘I deliberation determination was an constituent of “f**k you” from the squad this year. Our radical were saying, “we are a beardown team, nary substance what you propulsion astatine us, bring it on”.

‘I ne'er felt I mightiness person to locomotion away. I believed successful myself. I believed successful the process. I trusted successful the process that was scrupulously applied by the institution and I conscionable had to spot to that. When I was connected the level to Bahrain, I didn’t cognize whether I was going to beryllium astatine the contention oregon not.

‘I person had tremendous enactment and backing from the shareholders and from wrong the company. It was really rather affectional earlier the archetypal contention erstwhile I addressed the factory. The enactment and the reception that the squad gave me, I volition never, ever hide that.’

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