Five Live Formula One.

Yes, we wanted to be talking to you this evening from the Bahrain International Circuit,

which is always lit up beautifully in the evening.

The Bahrain Grand Prix is a night race. So that's

where we were hoping to talk to you from this evening, but there's been plenty of

chat off track today. A lot of business taking place away from Formula One sort of track action and so that's

meant that we've been slightly pushed back so we are talking to you from the

glamorous location of a hotel room in Bahrain and the reason that we've been slightly delayed is that there has been a

constantly evolving story involving the team principle of Red Bull Racing, Christian Horner.

Now in the lead up to this weekend there were allegations of inappropriate

behavior towards a female colleague made against Christian Horner. Yesterday that

grievance was dismissed after an investigation was launched by Red Bull.

They said that investigation was independent and rigorous.

But there has been a lot going on in the last 24 hours and I'm joined by Harry Benjamin, our lead commentator, the BBC

Chief F1 writer Andrew Benson and racing driver and broadcaster Alice Powell.

Harry, tell us a little bit about what has been going on in the lead up to this particular weekend when it comes to Christian Hornet and Red Bull Racing.

Yeah, so we've got to go back a little bit because we first heard about this investigation launched by Red Bull GMBH, the parent company, on the 5th of February.

At the time we knew very few details about the specifics of this investigation or the allegations,

except for the fact that they brought in an external barrister to conduct these

investigations. Red Bull then released a statement yesterday evening and it said

as follows, the independent investigation into the allegations made

against Mr Horner is complete and Red Bull can confirm that the grievance has

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