Lewis Hamilton gave a really blunt response when he was quizzed about Christian Horner’s sacking.
The Pink Bull boss was relieved of his duties earlier this month after 20 years in command of the constructor, which beneath his management received eight drivers’ championships and 6 constructors’ championships.
His dismissal got here a yr and a half after he was caught up in a serious controversy that threatened to engulf your entire staff.
Horner was accused of sexual harassment and coercive and controlling behaviour by a feminine worker following the revelation of alleged intercourse texts despatched by the 51-year-old, who’s married to former Spice Woman Geri Halliwell.
He was twice cleared, initially after an inside investigation carried out by a lawyer, after which by one other lawyer who dismissed the feminine worker’s attraction. Horner has strongly denied the claims.
However whereas Pink Bull backed their man all through the unfolding saga in 2024, relations had undoubtedly cooled within the following months earlier than he was dismissed.
Christian Horner, who’s married to Spice Woman Geri Halliwell, was dismissed earlier this month
Lewis Hamilton reacted to the information this week, giving a very blunt response
Drivers have this week been reacting to the surprising dismissal forward of the Belgian Grand Prix, with Lewis Hamilton the most recent to take action.
Hamilton and the previous Pink Bull principal had been direct rivals for years, with the 40-year-old driver behind the wheel for McLaren, Mercedes and extra lately Ferrari.
And when requested about Horner’s dismissal this week, Hamilton was fairly coy.
‘It does not change something in my life,’ he mentioned.
‘I used to be neither stunned nor unsurprised. What’s there to say? I sat with Christian in his workplace again in 2005, and I used to be in Formulation Three and looking out to enter GP2. He was with Arden.
‘And I would not say we hit it off from the get-go however to see his career together with his profession, it was clearly outstanding what he did with the staff with an enormous group of fantastic folks.
‘With an enormous group of fantastic folks, to essentially run an organisation that large and that effectively takes expertise and ability and that is what he delivered to the staff. So I want him all the perfect.’
Horner was changed as Pink Bull staff principal by Laurent Mekies and is anticipated to serve a interval of gardening go away till the top of this yr.
Horner’s dismissal got here a yr and a half after he was caught up in a serious controversy
Max Verstappen too spoke forward of this weekend’s Grand Prix in Belgium
Laurent Mekies was promoted from Pink Bull’s sister staff RB to switch Horner because the staff principal
The staff are getting ready for his or her first race with out their former principal on the helm since 2005.
Star driver Max Verstappen reacted to Horner’s sacking on Wednesday.
‘On the finish of the day, administration and the shareholders determined that they needed a change, and on the finish of the day, they run the staff, and I am the driving force,’ the 27-year-old mentioned.
‘So, no matter they resolve, it is absolutely of their proper to do what they need. And that is mainly the way it occurred.
‘And on the similar time now, sitting right here, you look again at these 20 years of Pink Bull, I feel we have had a number of nice, nice years, nice, nice outcomes.
‘Naturally, there are additionally years the place it is not going that effectively, and I feel the final one and a half years haven’t gone how we might have preferred.
‘And administration determined they needed to steer the ship in a special path, most likely. After which everybody else has to conform to that and look ahead.’
The Belgian Grand Prix goes forward this Sunday.
