Red Bull boss Christian Horner’s reaction to sex scandal: ‘F**k all of them’

Christian Horner’s reaction to his bombshell sexting scandal last season has been revealed ahead of the new season of Drive to Survive.

Christian Horner hit back at his Formula One rivals by blasting “f**k all of them” in the wake of his sexting scandal.

Red Bull boss Horner, 51, was the main story at the beginning of the 2024 season, The Sun reported.

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The team chief was cleared of the allegations twice after a private independent investigation into alleged “coercive behaviour” towards an anonymous employee.

Then the day after the allegations were thrown out and on the eve of the curtain-raising race in Bahrain, a dossier of texts and photographs were leaked to key figures and journalists in F1.

That included messages of a sexual nature and requests for images from an unnamed colleague.

The bombshell leaks became the talk of the sport – with barristers heavily involved and Max Verstappen’s dad Jos pushing for his dismissal – as question marks hung over Horner’s future, both for his job as Red Bull chief and his marriage to former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell.

An appeal to the original findings was launched but the Red Bull probe again cleared their chief Horner of wrongdoing in August.

At the time, he said he was “relieved” to put the scandal behind him.

Christian and Geri in Jeddah. Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP

But in the new series of Netflix’s Drive To Survive, behind-the-scenes reaction to the saga makes for dramatic viewing as Horner slammed his fellow team principals who criticised him.

The season covering the 2024 F1 campaign launches on March 7 – and Horner makes use of the cameras to give his verdict.

Horner says: “The higher you rise, the sharper the knives.

“I’ve reached the top of my game and I never thought in a million years I’d have a challenge like this in my career.

“It was obvious that the end goal was for me to leave Red Bull.

“It’s a crucial time of year, in a job that I do, you’re the front face of the organisation.

“You can either hide away or you can get out there and face it.”

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff called for greater transparency over the Red Bull investigation.

His McLaren counterpart Zak Brown insisted it was crucial to “make sure that all the racing teams and the personnel and the drivers and everyone else involved in the sport are operating in a manner which we all live by”.

But Horner snapped back at Brown and added: “Zak’s a p***k. I’ll get through it.

“You find out who your friends are, don’t you?”

Horner and Halliwell arrived at the Bahrain Grand Prix last March hand-in-hand – determined to put on a united front.

The pair walked into the Bahrain Grand Prix hand-in-hand in a clear response to the scandal. Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images

And when the racing finally got underway, Horner and Red Bull put the distractions aside to secure a 1-2 finish with Verstappen claiming the chequered flag ahead of Sergio Perez.

And that was exactly what Horner wanted.

He boasted: “That’s the best way to f*** them all. Shut the f*** up.”

Horner received a CBE from King Charles in December despite the allegations into his behaviour.

But ahead of the new 2025 season getting underway, the principal – who has worked at Red Bull since 2005 – was booed at a launch event in London.

Teams unveiled their liveries and various key individuals spoke on stage at the F1 75 live show at the O2 Arena.

But when controversial Horner took the microphone, he was resoundly booed by many in the audience.

This story first appeared in The Sun and was republished with permission.

Originally published as Red Bull boss Christian Horner’s reaction to sex scandal: ‘F**k all of them’