Ex-F1 racer and F1 team boss Gerhard Berger believes Red Bull Racing will definitely not opt to ‘do a Ferrari’ in the final part of the season, despite what happened in Korea last weekend, when both Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel retired.
Red Bull Team Principal Christian Horner has insisted all year that Milton Keynes-based outfit will not resort to team orders and he repeated that following the event in Yeongam, when he again said it would be ‘wrong’ to favour one driver over the other.
While the current points situation – Webber is 11 points off Alonso and Vettel is 25 points off with just two races to go and a maximum 50 points left – might now warrant it in some people’s books, Berger added that Red Bull won’t do that as they have a different rationale for competing.
"Some of the teams, like Williams or McLaren, operate as a business," Berger told Servus TV. "In this way it makes sense for them to have a team strategy in order to maximise their championship position.
"But Red Bull has a very different approach, using F1 as a sporting platform to boost its product and from the sporting approach, the best man wins.
"If I know [Red Bull owner] Dietrich Mateschitz, there is no question about the approach.
"And I think the fans will be grateful. It's sport. It's not sport, however, if all year you're just making tactical moves."
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