Marko rejects Horner’s Red Bull leak allegations

Helmut Marko has rejected Christian Horner’s criticism of his handling of confidential Red Bull information, dismissing it as “a collection of untruths”.

The former Red Bull adviser gave his response to F1-Insider, as reported by RacingNews365, and said he did not want to discuss the accusations further. The criticism appears in Horner’s forthcoming book.

In passages read by RacingNews365, Horner accuses Marko of sharing sensitive information with favoured media outlets. He says the disclosures threatened Red Bull’s intellectual property and caused frustration within the team, singling out Adrian Newey as particularly angered by the alleged leaks.

Horner says he repeatedly raised the issue, but that Marko denied wrongdoing and at times even denied having spoken despite being quoted on the record. He writes that the team then became more selective about what it discussed in Marko’s presence.

The book is due to be published on 22 October.