Daniel Ricciardo is beneath hearth for his public response to the Pink Bull “sext” scandal that has rocked System One.
The Perth F1 celebrity, who sits behind the wheel of sister firm Visa CashApp RB (previously Alphatauri) prompted outrage when he referred to the saga involving Pink Bull boss Christian Horner as “noise and distractions”.
It comes after revelations on Thursday that the girl on the centre of the scenario was suspended by Pink Bull forward of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
The girl had accused Horner of inappropriate behaviour.
Nevertheless, the allegations had been dismissed by the staff’s impartial barrister-led investigation. The girl elected to not attraction the decision and no prison allegations have been made.
Simply hours later, lots of of “sexually suggestive” messages allegedly despatched by the 50-year-old staff principal had been leaked.
Whereas champion driver Max Verstappen has on quite a few events elected to not converse out in assist of Horner, Ricciardo raised eyebrows together with his public response.
The 34-year-old, talking on the opening day of the grand prix, instructed TV networks, that he hoped the scenario will “slowly go away”.
“Proper now there’s a variety of noise and distractions, there’s little doubt,” he stated.
“The way in which they carried out final week… you’ll suppose for them to have the ability to nonetheless give attention to enterprise on monitor, that could be a huge energy of theirs.
“So, yeah, hopefully this stuff begin to slowly go away, they usually can simply give attention to being a race staff.
“However in fact, for the drivers as properly it’s not at all times straightforward, however I believe they did. A superb job in dealing with this.”
