SAKHIR, Bahrain — Christian Horner remained the centre of consideration forward of this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, visiting Formulation One boss Stefano Domenicali and FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem individually on Friday to debate the continued controversy surrounding him.

On Wednesday, Horner was cleared of misconduct by Pink Bull GmbH, the mother or father firm of Pink Bull Racing, after an investigation following a criticism of inappropriate behaviour made by a lady employed by the F1 crew.

In a exceptional flip of occasions, recordsdata purportedly associated to the investigation had been broadly distributed to media retailers on Thursday.

The authenticity of the recordsdata, which got here from a generic e-mail account, has not been verified by ESPN.

The Horner state of affairs has forged a darkish cloud over Pink Bull’s preparations for the brand new season, with the crew broadly thought to be favourites going into the marketing campaign.

Horner dismissed “nameless hypothesis” after the leak and was current within the paddock on Friday as regular.

After the ultimate follow session of the week, he visited Domenicali after which Ben Sulayem in fast succession.

Earlier within the day, Horner and Ben Sulayem had greeted one another in entrance of Pink Bull’s storage and in full view of F1’s TV broadcast cameras.

Neither F1 or the FIA has commented since Thursday’s file leak, though sources have instructed ESPN there may be rising stress from different groups for each our bodies to deal with the matter, given the way in which the Horner story has turn into international information.