Set to enter F1 in 2026 in partnership with Pink Bull, Ford admits to monitoring the continuing saga on the Austrian staff involving Christian Horner.
Attending the Daytona 500, the long-lasting opener to the 2024 NASCAR season, Mark Rushbrook, head of Ford Efficiency Motorsport, admitted that the present state of affairs is of concern.
“As a household firm, and an organization that holds itself to very excessive requirements of behaviour and integrity, we do count on the identical from our companions,” he instructed AP Sports activities.
“It seems to us, and what we have been instructed, is that Pink Bull is taking the state of affairs very critically, and naturally they’re fearful about their model as properly. That is why they have an unbiased investigation.
“Till we see what reality comes out of that, it is too early for us to touch upon all of it.”
The saga stays shrouded in thriller, a state of affairs not helped by hypothesis within the media and, after all, social media.
Attending the launch of the RB20 on Thursday, Horner was saying little however insisted that he might be attending this week’s pre-season check in Bahrain.
Nevertheless, conscious of the harm that the hypothesis is doing, based on The Occasions, Pink Bull is eager to conclude the saga as quickly as potential.
But whereas the British newspaper claimed that Horner doesn’t have the help of Max Verstappen, the three-time world champion disagrees.
“It is the identical as all the time,” he instructed reporters on Thursday. “I do not know who likes to write down these type of issues, however between me and Christian it is like all the time.”
In the meantime, the media, particularly on the decrease finish of the dimensions, continues to lap it up, the Each day Mail in the present day proclaiming that “Geri Horner’s Spice Ladies bandmates ‘supply her their help’ as her Pink Bull F1 boss husband Christian is accused of sending ‘sexually suggestive messages’ to an worker.”
