Geri Halliwell-Horner will attend Saturday’s Bahrain Grand Prix amid the continued media storm surrounding her husband, Christian Horner.
The previous Spice Lady touched down in the Middle East on Friday and appears set to make a public present of assist for Horner amid a media storm over allegations of misconduct.
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The primary race of the Formula 1 season has been overshadowed by the scandal surrounding the Crimson Bull workforce precept, who has been forced to defend himself from accusations of inappropriate behaviour in direction of a colleague.
There have been main doubts over Horner’s future accountable for the reigning F1 world champions and within the sport within the wake of an inside workforce investigation into his conduct.
That investigation cleared him of any wrongdoing on Wednesday, with Horner persevering with his position forward of the season-opening Grand Prix for the reason that allegations first emerged – however the controversy has nonetheless lingered.
Horner has denied any wrongdoing, however the state of affairs took one other flip this week when an e mail containing 79 recordsdata on a Google Drive was anonymously despatched to a listing of journalists, different workforce principals, F1 house owners Liberty Media and extra.
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The recordsdata encompass alleged leaked textual content message exchanges on WhatsApp between Horner and a girl which can be of a sexual nature.
It has put the main target firmly on the Crimson Bull workforce boss and his spouse forward of the race, with the pair having distinguished visibility inside the sport in recent times.
The couple – who married in 2015 – have featured closely within the fashionable documentary Drive to Survive on Netflix because it first aired in 2019, showcasing the household life at house away from the monitor, in addition to Geri’s presence across the monitor in assist of her husband.
And it seems that will proceed this weekend, regardless of the present disaster, with Sky Sports activities reporting Geri will likely be in attendance on the first Grand Prix of the season.
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The 51-year-old former pop star is normally an everyday at F1 race weekends, the place her husband’s Crimson Bull workforce are reigning champions for each the Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championships.
She is but to be seen within the paddock, however her arrival in Bahrain comes after Horner was pulled from the pit wall throughout Friday’s observe session for a gathering with FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem.
Questions have been requested over the timing of that assembly because the groups ready for the primary qualifying session.
However Horner was later seen rising from the Crimson Bull storage side-by-side with Ben Sulayem and sharing an embrace with the F1 chief.
The entire state of affairs has solid a shadow over the workforce and the race, however Crimson Bull star Max Verstappen has insisted his and Horner’s minds are totally targeted on the job in hand, including that the allegations towards the workforce boss are ‘none of our enterprise’.
“We’re totally targeted on the automotive and the efficiency right here through the weekend,” stated the Dutchman, who’s trying to start his title defence and push for a fourth straight world championship with a victory having secured one other pole place.
“That is the way it must be, I feel, and that is what we proceed to do, as a result of it is not our enterprise.
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“After I take a look at how Christian operates inside the workforce, he is been an unbelievable workforce boss, so completely from a efficiency aspect of issues you’ll be able to’t even query that.
“I converse to Christian so much and all through the weekend right here he’s totally dedicated to the workforce, he is additionally right here for the efficiency.
“In fact, he is most likely slightly bit distracted however, like I stated earlier than he simply focuses on the efficiency aspect of issues and that is how all of us work collectively.”
