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FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem has admitted that the controversy surrounding Red Bull team principle Christian Horner is 'damaging the sport'.
Horner had been cleared of wrongdoing following an internal investigation into allegations of 'inappropriate behaviour'. However, renewed scrutiny quickly followed after a tranche of what appeared to be intimate WhatsApp exchanges with a female colleague were sent to Formula One's most influential figures on Thursday.
The bombshell email contained 79 documents, including hundreds of messages, many of them of a sexual nature.
The saga has played out during the opening weekend of the new Formula One season and the head of the sport's governing body, who met personally with Horner on Friday, has conceded it casts F1 in a negative light.
'It’s damaging the sport,' Ben Sulayem told the Financial Times. 'This is damaging on a human level.'
