Christian Horner can argue that F1 is a team sport but that is not true.
For a F1 driver winning is all. To tell a driver not to race, not to overtake, to hold position goes against the grain. It is wrong.
I understand that he, Horner, wants to consolidate the constructors position that Red Bull hold. That is understandable. But his weasley words, about not wanting to lose points by allowing Webber to overtake Vettel, just don’t make sense. Sure, the last think you want as team principal is your drivers taking each other out. But it really doesn’t matter, at the team level, who came in second and third.
However, at the driver level it make a huge difference. The number of points affects your ranking in the championship and lets not forget that all the drivers are fighting for first place.
I am amazed at how controlled Webber is. Time and again he is given orders presenting him as the number two driver. If it’s not orders then he is given second-rate kit or worse still has kit taken away from him.
I understand that Webber has not yet signed his contract to maintain his place as driver for Red Bull into the 2012 season. I am sure he is thinking very hard about whether he wants to carry on in what appears to be the number two slot, to carry on driving without the full support of the team.
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