Glenn Freeman
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And he wouldn't have obeyed it.
Good example, before the collision, this race is also a good example of a race where, on the surface, nothing's actually happened yet.
There wasn't loads of overtaking, but just, as you say, seeing those four cars absolutely going at it, knowing that the drivers are pushing really hard, knowing that they're burning too much fuel, that's going to cause a problem later on.
You couldn't take your eyes off it, even though up to this point there hadn't really been...
any overtaking.
That's true, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So while all this was going on, all the fallout was being handled between Turkey and Canada.
The timing's brilliant.
This was also the time when Mark Webber signs a new deal with Red Bull for 2011.
In the middle of all this, I think it's absolutely perfect time, which is why I've included it.
Webber and Horner said the decision was easy and straightforward.
Webber was happy to agree a one year extension as it suited him to take things one season at a time at this stage of his career.
career in his book weber said that although there was a bad smell after turkey i wasn't about to write off my own chances by announcing to the team i was off to pastures new in 2011 i already felt things were going to be stacked against me but they wouldn't they would have turned the tap off quick smart and the momentum would have swung firmly in seb's direction
So, Ed, was this actually good pragmatism from Webber?
Don't give up this great situation you're in with the best car just because there's all this tension going on behind the scenes.
Before we move away from Red Bull and focus on McLaren's dramas in this race, let's pick up on Weber's comments about feeling that things were going to be stacked against him.
Weber said in his book that after his back-to-back wins in Spain and Monaco that came before this weekend, his manager, Flavio Briatore, had told him that situation wouldn't be allowed to continue as Weber wasn't the chosen one at Red Bull.
Webber felt that the Turkey situation had made it clear Marco was pulling the strings at Red Bull and that he had an agenda to make Vettel the centre of the team.
He also wrote a letter to Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz outlining his feelings on everything that had happened.
And Webber said Horner went apoplectic when he found out about that.