The Red Bull Racing adamant to play fair
The Red Bull Racing wants to stick to their race strategy of giving an equal chance to both its drivers for the upcoming, 2011 season. FIA announced this Monday, to lift ban from one of the most controversial rules of the sport
‘team orders’, which disallowed the teams to ask one of its drivers to favour the other one.
The 2010 season saw a lot of controversy and condemnation by all the teams as Ferrari followed team orders at the German Grand Prix and asked one of its drivers Felipe Massa, to slow down and let Fernando Alonso pass on, to bag his second victory of the
season. Although the team was given a US $ 100,000 penalty for this act but, as expected, neither their points were deducted nor were any changes made in their race positions. After the incident, Red Bull proclaimed very vividly that it will not indulge in
such a thing no matter what shape the championship takes.
At one of the instances the team even assured that it would prefer losing the championship rather winning by cheating. However, as the season came to an end, the team very proudly stood as the winner of both the drivers’ as well as the constructors’ championship.
Now, while looking back at the 2010 season, the Red Bull team boss, Christian Horner, very proudly proclaimed that a fair play gave them triumph this season and a similar strategy will help them excel next year as well.
The Milton Keynes based team let its drivers, Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel drive freely till the very last race of the season. Many of the analysts and reporters kept discouraging the team from following this kind of a race strategy insisting that it
will lose a certain championship if it does not decide to side one of its drivers. However, Horner stood firm on his stance all through the 2010 season and believes in letting both the drivers have the same head-to-head fight again next season also.
While talking to the media earlier today he said, "I don't think it changes anything for us. We will go into next year giving both drivers the same support as we always have. The important thing for us is that it is what they do on the track. We gave both
drivers the very best we could this year and that is the way we will go into next year.”
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