It was an anonymous email, whose address contained the day’s date, 29 February, and had been sent to over 100 senior figures in Formula 1, including team bosses, journalists and F1’s owners.
It dropped at 6:22pm local time in Bahrain ahead of the first race of the 2024 season and contained a link to a Google Drive and the message “following Red Bull’s recent investigation and statements, you will be interested to see the materials attached”.
