{"id":113678,"date":"2025-09-02T17:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113678\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T17:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:27:07","slug":"christian-horner-complainant-back-working-in-formula-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113678\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Horner: Complainant back working in Formula 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Horner is in negotiations with Red Bull over a termination settlement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The complainant wrote to Red Bull in December 2023 making allegations of sexual harassment and coercive, controlling behaviour against Horner. The allegations became public in February 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Horner has always denied the claims and an internal Red Bull investigation dismissed the allegations on the eve of the 2024 F1 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A day later, a tranche of WhatsApp messages purporting to involve Horner was leaked to senior F1 personnel and media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Horner refused to say whether the messages were genuine, describing them as &#8220;anonymous, speculative messages from an unknown source&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the complainant appealed about the results of the first investigation, Red Bull launched a second, which came to the same conclusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Horner and Red Bull have been approached for comment but have not responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Horner is in negotiations with Red Bull over a termination settlement. The complainant wrote to Red Bull in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-113678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}