Its a gambling site so not allowed in some countries. So they'll run as Kick in those.
Why not just run as Kick then for the whole season and only have Stake on the car as a sponsor in places where it is allowed. Do they just want to confuse everybody?

Its a gambling site so not allowed in some countries. So they'll run as Kick in those.
Why not just run as Kick then for the whole season and only have Stake on the car as a sponsor in places where it is allowed. Do they just want to confuse everybody?

While there had been speculation and even assumptions about the nature of the allegations, sources have told The Sun the investigation is set to centre on a female employee’s concerns about Horner’s strict work regime and does not relate to any sexual impropriety.

“Christian had concerns about her conduct and made it clear he was unhappy,” the F1 source said.

“She went on to make a complaint about his ‘controlling’ behaviour, which detonated this crisis for the team.”

One F1 source claimed a deliberate attempt was being made to destabilise Horner.

Not sure if anyone else has pointed it out, but I am fairly certain there is only one woman in the Red Bull hierarchy who is senior enough to be managed directly by Horner.

There has to be more to the story than my boss yelled at me once because I stuffed up and cried. It would have to be a prolonged period of abuse, is he like that to other employees or just this one, is he asking people to do things that are outside the scope of their work and is he sending text messages at 1 am and expecting answers immediatly and then getting angry at work the next day because they weren't responded to immediatly?

So in other words, is he acting like a boss pretty much all of us has experienced at least once in our lives? Or has he gone beyond that? I certainly have had a boss that was all of the above. For some reason just zeroing in on one particualr employee for no apparent reason and just being an absolute dick. I've especially had a boss that hit the last two points. He was the very deffinition of being "a c**t".

There have been claims that this could be a consequence of a power struggle between the UK side of the team, led by Horner in Milton Keynes, and the branch of the Red Bull business that is headed by Oliver Mintzlaff, in the wake of Dietrich Mateschitz’s passing in late 2022.

One suggestion has been that this is an opportunity to seize more control of Red Bull Racing and the F1 operation’s various other businesses including the new Powertrains facility in Milton Keynes that Horner is also the CEO of.

Such assertions are without foundation at this stage.

Agree with you totally. I'll double down on it too, you'd expect the boss of one of the world's best sports teams to be a pretty hard task master. Not that its an excuse to be an awful person. Reporting on this all seems to be a hit-job.

So, what do we expect?
Visa = bit like Williams with blue-and-black
Aston = green-and-black
Ferrari = red-and-black
Mercedes = black-and-black
McLaren = already know, orange-and-black
Red Bull = PLEASE FOR GOD SAKE STAY AWAY FROM BLACK!

The-race.com has suggested it could be an internal power struggle

Yes. This assumes that the complaint is related to management style and tone rather than anything sexual, which could feasibly involve any female employee.

From an insider at Mercedes about Hamilton departure:

There's something about him choosing to go the Reds that we don't know about. I suspect something, but I'm not going to speculate, as it will come to light at some point in the next few months. Or, after the events of this week, even in days.