The saga surrounding Christian Horner and his future as team principal at Red Bull has dominated the agenda and grabbed front pages around the world.
As the multiple layers of a very complicated story continue to be unwrapped, every time it appears that things are ready to calm down they erupt again.
Perhaps the biggest bombshell came after the Bahrain Grand Prix when Jos Verstappen launched a broadside against Horner in calling for him to go.
“There is tension here while he remains in position,” said the Dutchman.
“The team is in danger of being torn apart. It can't go on the way it is. It will explode. He is playing the victim, when he is the one causing the problems.”
Those remarks, coming on the same weekend that documents were sent around to senior F1 personnel from an anonymous email address, pointed to a conspiracy that was not out of place in a Hollywood movie.
PLUS: What's behind efforts to bring down Red Bull F1 team boss Horner
It is hard to predict where things will go from here. But, from Red Bull’s perspective, the whole affair has been a massive distraction and one which it hopes ends soon so the focus can return to racing.
As Sergio Perez said in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday evening: "Well, I think now this is all behind us. We are, the whole team, a race team at the end of the day, and we are here to race, and to focus and to deliver on track. Our main focus, it's on the racing side, simple as that.”
Source: Autosport