Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel Act Like Turkeys in Istanbul

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Published: May 31, 2010

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It seems that Red Bull Racing have hung Mark Webber out to dry on the unfortunate, and probably unnecessary, incident between himself and teammate Sebastian Vettel in Turkey.

The crash cost RBR an almost certain one-two and left the team scrambling to get Webber to the line for third place. The incident occurred on lap 41 and appeared, at first glance, to be a simple racing incident caused by Vettel moving over to claim the racing line after completing a clean pass—almost.

Unfortunately, Vettel hadn’t quite completed the pass and moved across quite sharply on Webber, collecting the latter’s front wheel and wing with his rear wheel causing the young German to spin out and leaving him with little more to do than make silly hand gestures.

Commentary teams, experts, and journalists alike seemed to unanimously blame Vettel for moving across and hitting Webber’s car. Even Lewis Hamilton, who was directly behind the pair, laid the blame squarely with Vettel. The only exception was Eddie Jordan and there will be few surprised by the fact that Eddie took a contrarian stance.

But all was not as it seemed.

To everyone’s surprise, Christian Horner and Helmut Marko have come out and dropped the blame at the feet of Webber. In doing so, they have left themselves open to some interesting questions about what’s going on behind the scenes at RBR.

In the world according to Horner and Marko, Vettel had no choice but to do what he did. They were apparently under the impression that people were blaming Vettel for trying to overtake. They would have us believe that Webber, who had led for two-thirds of the race, should just pull over and let him pass.

The reality is that Webber effectively did yield the position. He didn’t shut the door on Vettel, he simply held his line, forcing Vettel to try to complete the pass on the dirty side of the track. The McLaren duo of...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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