Former Red Bull driver David Coulthard is sure that the Milton Keynes team is attempting to approach its driver situation in a justified way, despite Mark Webber’s comments after winning the British Grand Prix on Sunday.
With Webber having stated ‘Not bad for a number two driver!’ via car-to-pit radio shortly after taking the chequered flag at Silverstone, his later comments confirmed that tension had mounted within the team after Sebastian Vettel was handed a new front wing following final practice.
However, driver turned BBC television pundit Coulthard is sure that Team Principal Christian Horner is viewing the situation in the fairest way possible.
“There are two ways of running a race team,” the Scot began in his column for The Telegraph. “You can either go the Ferrari-Schumacher route, with one driver openly backed over the other, or you can go for an equal partnership. The first is the most effective way of winning a championship but morally dubious. The second is the fairer system but is incredibly volatile and difficult to put into practice.
“My preference is for the second system. I once turned down the chance of a move to Ferrari as I would not accept being a signed-up number two to Michael (Schumacher). Red Bull are clearly a team trying to do it the fair way, whatever Mark Webber may have said at Silverstone.
“That is not to say, though, that I agree with Mark. As Christian Horner explained, his team were in an invidious position. With just one new front wing and two hungry drivers, he applied a logic he felt would give Red Bull the best chance of winning the championship. That is his prerogative.
“The mistake Red Bull made, and which Christian has admitted, was that they did not go into the weekend with that system already in place and publicly known; that way they would not have left themselves open to accusations of partisanship.”
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