Christian Horner and his spouse Geri Horner walked into the Bahrain Grand Prix paddock hand-in-hand on Saturday in a public present of unity after the Crimson Bull Formulation One crew boss was cleared of allegations of misconduct in direction of a feminine worker.

The 50-year-old Horner and the previous Spice Women singer regarded poised as they made their strategy to Crimson Bull’s hospitality space, the place they mingled with VIP friends in full view of photographers and tv cameras.

Their look collectively on the season-opening race got here after F1 media and key paddock figures obtained on Thursday an nameless e mail containing a Google drive hyperlink to purported proof submitted to the investigation.

Recipients included the president of the game’s governing physique Mohammed Ben Sulayem and Formulation One chief govt Stefano Domenicali in addition to rival crew bosses.

A prolonged investigation carried out by an unbiased lawyer for the championship-winning crew’s Austrian father or mother firm, Crimson Bull GmbH, cleared Horner of the allegations on Wednesday.

Talking on Thursday, after Horner was cleared however earlier than the e-mail was despatched out, Mercedes and McLaren crew bosses Toto Wolff and Zak Brown had known as on Formulation One’s governing physique to push Crimson Bull for higher transparency in regards to the investigation.

Ben Sulayem advised the Monetary Instances that the controversy was damaging to the game however that the physique had no instant plans to open its personal investigation.

Horner met with Ben Sulayem and Domenicali within the paddock on Friday.

The Briton is the game’s longest-serving crew boss having led Crimson Bull into Formulation One in 2005.

Final 12 months, he guided the Milton Keynes-based crew to their sixth constructors’ title with 21 wins from 22 races in essentially the most dominant marketing campaign within the sport’s historical past.

Verstappen, beginning Saturday’s race from pole, is favorite to open his pursuit of a fourth successive world title with a win that might stretch his file run on the prime of the Formulation One standings to 40 races.