Ed Straw

It's really, really difficult to get this right.

But you don't need kind of one loose cannon.

individual there who will kind of shoot from the hip as Marco did and you know in terms of that whole Vettel-Weber relationship there are

that neither was universally in the right or universally in the wrong.

That's what you get.

They're fighting for a world championship and their characters will play a part.

They're just one individual.

We'll all have our own individual views of things going on and it might seem different from the outside.

But as soon as it's all out there in public as well,

becomes really really hard to keep a lid on it and the lid was never properly fully put on that whole thing for the whole time particularly in 2010 and say you draw a straight line from that to multi-21 so yeah you you cannot manage it if there's not a relatively united front put up and that's where it failed from a from a pr perspective shall we say

shaping out certain ways one driving to feel the luck's going against him and then you start feeding it into you that is this is there something wider going on it's fast always fascinating and all complicated and communication by the team orders ban at this point the problem is you can come up with all sorts of ways to impose team orders by code and that kind of thing but drivers quite rightly will be selective about what they understand if there's any room for maneuver

they will find ways to contest it.

So the communication side of it, because it was clear they wanted those two drivers to swap positions.

And the ideal thing to be would have been to say, right, Mark, let's head past.

They couldn't specifically do that.

Possibly not, but that then comes down to a thing you try and sort behind the scenes because ultimately, if you're the driver, in most cases you should obey a team order.

But at least you've got to be clear about it because if you're not clear about it, then it leaves that room to manoeuvre, doesn't it?

Because there was some talk about that there should have been some kind of message given, which is why they didn't like the extent to which Webber defended it.

So it all comes back to that.

It comes back to what do you want them to do?