Webber: I was right to disregard team orders
Mark Webber has hit out at his Red Bull team's request for him to hold position behind team-mate Sebastian Vettel in the British Grand Prix - and revealed that he deliberately snubbed the instruction and carried on attacking the world champion anyway.
The two Red Bulls had a spectacular battle for second in the closing stages, with Vettel emerging narrowly in front.
Radio transmissions suggested that the team had tried to get their drivers to hold station, and Webber angrily confirmed this after the race.
Asked how he felt, the Australian replied: "I'm not fine with it, no, that's the answer to that.
"If Fernando [Alonso] had retired on the last lap, we would have been battling for the victory.
"So I was fighting to the end.
"Of course I ignored the team, because I wanted to try and get another place.
"Seb was doing his best, I was doing my best.
"For sure I don't want to crash with anyone, and that was it.
"I tried to do my best with the amount of one-way conversation I had - I wasn't talking too much back, but there was a lot of traffic coming to me...
"But I was still trying to do my best to pass the guy in front."
Webber won last year's British Grand Prix while still fuming over Red Bull's decision to take their latest front wing off his car for qualifying and give it to Vettel as the German's example had failed.
That led to a team favouritism storm, but Webber said he didn't regard today as a revival of that controversy and saw it more as a disagreement over the handling of this particular race.
"I just want to race to the end," he said.
"With four or five laps to go, they started to chat to me about holding my position.
"Of course they want the points, but I also need to try and get some more points as well."
Vettel was sanguine about the row, saying he was happy to race but understood the team's stance too.
"I tried to stay ahead, obviously we're racing each other and I think there's nothing wrong with that," he said.
"From a team point of view, if you have the cars quite isolated in second and third, the first car has gone away and the fourth car is quite far away as well, then from a team point of view there is no point in racing and trying to do something stupid.
"But naturally we try to race, so what can I say?"
