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In the most recent episode of Formula 1: Drive to Survive, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner was able to learn the contents of an email that contained a number of allegedly exchanged emails between himself and a female coworker.

The knives are sharper the higher you rise, according to Horner in the seventh season of the fly-on-the-wall documentary. Never had I imagined that a career challenge like this would arise after I’ve attained the top of my game in a million years.

The news that Horner was being investigated over an allegation of coercive, abusive behavior and sexual harassment only came ten days before Red Bull were scheduled to release their car for the 2024 F1 season.

The team, who were aiming to win their fourth drivers’ championship in a row, was threatening to lose because of the story.

The upcoming storm is already in the Netflix series’ first few scenes. You never know what life will bring, Horner’s wife Geri Halliwell-Horner tells him while discussing Red Bull’s victorious 2023 season, which Dutch driver Max Verstappen won an unprecedented 19 out of 22 races.

The documentary team later captures the couple walking hand in hand together before the season-eying Grand Prix in Bahrain, with questions looming about whether Horner should step aside from his position as part of the investigation into his conduct. The couple are seen looking tense as they walk hand in hand together.

You’re the front office, Horner said, “You’re the key to the organization at this crucial time of the year.” You have two options: hiding or facing it.

In another instance, Horner is spotted speaking in response to McLaren CEO Zak Brown’s request for transparency in an interview, saying, “Well, you find out who your friends are, don’t you? “

Following Red Bull’s investigation, Horner was cleared, but Formula 1 personnel and the media received an unidentified email with a link to messages that purportedly involved the team principal the day after first practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

The email he receives is immediately captured in Drive to Survive, which launches on Friday. Horner looks stressed while checking his phone in the paddock.

“My phone suddenly starts receiving messages at the end of this, that, and the other,” Horner says. A number of alleged messages are dropped in a bombshell.

It was obviously intended to distract me the most and cause me the most stress.

He later adds, “It was obvious that Red Bull’s ultimate goal was for me to leave.”

Jos Verstappen’s father, one of the voices who demanded that the 51-year-old step down, was one of the speakers. He claimed during the Bahrain Grand Prix that if Horner remained in charge, the entire team would be torn apart.

Halliwell-Horner is seen hugging Verstappen’s father in a scene that features internal conflicts.

In August of that year, a colleague who had made allegations against Horner filed an appeal against the investigation.

Jimmy Robertson defeated Mark Allen of Northern Ireland 4-2 in the opening round of the World Grand Prix at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Arena.

World No. 7 Allen took a 2-0 lead with breaks of 50 and 63, but his English foe, who was based in England, responded with runs of 65, 68, and 50 to win the next three frames.

Robertson, who is currently the world’s 36th overall, defeated his seventh-ranked opponent in the tournament’s final round by winning frame six.

In the final 64 in Yushan, China, Allen also lost at the first hurdle to David Lilley of England last week at the World Open.

Mark Selby, a four-time world champion, defeated Wales’ Jackson Page 4-3, Neil Robertson, 4-0, and Barry Hawkins, a recent Welsh Open champion, won the match 4-3.

Josh Taylor claims that those who think he has reached the top of his game should follow his advice and become the next Josh Taylor.

The Scot, 34, moves up in weight for the first time to compete against England’s Ekow Essuman at Glasgow’s Hydro on May 24th.

Following back-to-back defeats to Teofimo Lopez and Jack Catterall, the former undisputed light-welterweight champion, Taylor is aiming to get his career back on track.

“There is still hunger and desire.” Taylor told BBC Scotland, “I want to achieve more in this game.”

There are many “you can’t do this, you can’t do that,” claim “naysayers.” I also enjoy disproving them.

Taylor acknowledges that the weight increase in his career should have been made sooner, and that the 147-pound division offers some intriguing options.

He continued, “I just think in hindsight – it’s a great thing – I probably should have done it right away after I won the undisputed title]against Jose Ramirez in May 2021.”

However, I made a promise to Jack [Catterall] that if I won the fight against Ramirez, I would give him the first shot and I stayed true to my word when I broke that promise. I should have probably moved up in the interim, though.

I may have stayed at 140 or maybe fought too many times, but all has said and done, and we are now in the new chapter.

“The welterweight division is currently quite hot. There are some significant fights in the pipeline. Conor Benn and other similar things are all massive megafights, and you’re talking about them on a larger scale.