Since the start of the 2010 season, the fairness between Red Bull drivers has been the subject of intense discussions, and some wondered, starting from Silverstone, if the team orders would have been the same if Vettel had been in the role of the hunter and not the other way around. This Thursday, during a press conference bringing together the six German drivers on the grid, Sebastian Vettel could not avoid questions on this subject: \u00ab I think it always depends on the situation in the race. [\u2026] I don’t think there was anything to gain for us last time. Fernando was far ahead, and no matter who was 4th, Felipe or Lewis, they were fighting each other so we were not within their reach and therefore, as a team, there was nothing to gain. Mark said he wanted to race, to improve his position. I didn’t want to let him through and I defended myself. \u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00ab On one hand, you want to race for yourself but on the other hand, you try to do your best for the team \u00bb explains the Red Bull driver. \u00ab To be honest, I don’t think there’s more to say or to discuss again. On Sunday, for that to happen, we’ll first need to do a lot of good laps to then be in a position to fight each other for the win, so I think at this stage, it’s still far away and I’ll rather focus on the free practice. \u00bb<\/p>\n
For his part, Mark Webber confirmed upon his arrival at the N\u00fcrburgring that he had cleared things up with Christian Horner, the Team Principal of the Austrian team: “We remain free to fight… most of the time. He guaranteed me that it would have been the same the other way around, that if Sebastian had closed in on me, he would still have frozen the positions.”<\/p>\n
This mini-controversy has nonetheless reignited discussions about the future of the Australian driver, particularly regarding his desire to remain loyal to the Milton Keynes team: \u00ab I would say the answer is yes. [\u2026] I should still be driving a Formula One car and not just the car to go grocery shopping. \u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By revealing that he received instructions from his team not to attack Sebastian Vettel during the British Grand Prix, Mark Webber has placed Red Bull at the center of a new controversy over team orders, even though these have not been formally banned since the Hockenheim precedent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":41606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[918,1334,1430],"class_list":["post-21538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-webber","tag-red-bull","tag-vettel"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n