Yet another turnaround, perhaps definitive
Christian Horner in a press conference on Thursday and in front of the cameras after Saturday’s race in Saudi Arabia he reiterated several concepts, suggesting that he has the certainty of remaining on the Red Bull command deck. The team principal underlined that the time had come to put an end to the speculation which also had repercussions on his family, underlining in reference to Helmut Marko and Max Verstappen that no one can feel above Red Bull.
The support of Yoovidhya Thai family, Horner’s guardian angel in this storm, however, is failing. As reported by the newspaper f1-insider.com the Marko-Mintzlaff axis pushing for Horner’s sacking is about to win the tug-of-war. The reasons are multiple.
In the US market, obviously important for Red Bull, after the affair there have been multiplied calls for a boycott of the energy drink by influential women’s rights activists. The employee who denounced Horner’s transgressive behavior, furthermore, could make the matter public even simply to highlight that the internal investigation entrusted to an external lawyer would not have been so objective.
Another significant detail makes us reflect on how sometimes we realize how small the world is. The German newspaper, in fact, claims that U2 are preparing a song to support the employee in question, whose brother is the son-in-law of U2 guitarist David Howell Evans, better known as ‘The Edge’. The title is eloquent: ‘Don’t be horny, be Christian’. And as much as Christian Horner tried to exploit the image of his ex-Spice Girls wife Geri Halliwell in the last two race weekends (a charade that would have nauseated Max Verstappen) the Thais know very well that a possible push from U2 it would represent an almost definitive blow to Horner’s image and with it Red Bull’s.
