Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has known as on Method 1 and its governing physique to demand extra transparency from Pink Bull's investigation into Christian Horner.
Horner has been cleared to proceed as Pink Bull group boss following an inside investigation into “inappropriate behaviour” in the direction of a feminine colleague.
Horner was within the Pink Bull pits for each practices of the brand new season on Thursday.
“I'm glad the method is over and I can't touch upon it,” he advised Sky Sports activities. “I'm centered on the upcoming season. It (unity) has by no means been stronger within the group.”
Pink Bull Racing's mum or dad firm, Pink Bull GmbH, stated it was assured the investigation into Horner was “truthful, rigorous and neutral”, however added that the report – working to 150 pages – was “confidential”.
It’s understood that neither Method 1's homeowners, Liberty Media, nor its regulator, the FIA, have seen the report.
However on Thursday night, calls grew in Bahrain for Pink Bull GmbH to share particulars of its investigation.
“I simply learn an announcement that was fairly easy,” Wolff stated. “My private opinion is that we actually can't look behind the scenes.
“There’s a woman in a single group who spoke to HR and stated there was an issue and it was being investigated and yesterday the game acquired a message that all the things was tremendous, we regarded into it.
“I consider that with the aspiration of a worldwide sport, on such crucial matters, it wants extra transparency and I ponder what’s the place of the game?
“We're opponents, we're a group, and we might or might not have our personal private opinions. However it’s extra of a normal response or motion that we as a sport want to evaluate what is true and what’s fallacious in a given scenario.
“Are we speaking to the precise ethical strategy, to the values based mostly on the hypothesis that's on the market?
“As a sport, we will't afford to maintain issues imprecise and opaque on crucial matters as a result of we get caught.”
McLaren CEO Zak Brown agreed along with his Mercedes counterpart.
“It’s the final accountability of the organizers of Method 1, the homeowners of Method 1, to make sure that all of the racing groups and employees, the drivers and everybody else concerned within the sport, function in the best way that all of us reside.” ” stated the American.
“I don't suppose it's concerning the roles and obligations of the groups. That’s for the FIA and F1 to in the end resolve and ask what they suppose offers them the extent of transparency they should in the end come to a conclusion and we’ve got to rely on them to satisfy that responsibility to us all. “
The PA press company has contacted Method 1 and the FIA for remark.
Horner, who has protested his innocence all through, was questioned by a lawyer for eight hours at a secret London location earlier this month.
He has been Pink Bull group boss since they entered F1 19 years in the past and is the longest serving boss on the grid.
He oversaw seven World Drivers' Championships and 6 Constructors' titles.
Pink Bull have dominated the game in current seasons, profitable 21 of twenty-two races final yr, with Dutch driver Max Verstappen setting a brand new file of 10 consecutive victories as he wrapped up his third title.
Horner, who’s married to former Spice Women singer Geri Halliwell, was awarded a CBE for companies to motor sport within the New Yr honours.
