Glenn Freeman
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He said that when he got back, he couldn't believe what I was walking into.
He said that Horner seemed to be managing things well enough and was doing a good job of being diplomatic.
But Marco was blaming Weber and Weber felt Horner seemed to perform a 180 degree turn to end up agreeing with Marco.
Webber said he was also put out by the TV footage during the race that showed Vettel going to the Red Bull pit wall and being hugged by the team.
With Mark saying, I began having serious doubts as to who was really pulling the strings at Red Bull Racing.
Adrian Newey wrote about this in his book as well.
He said Marco's comments caused near anarchy for Red Bull and left Newey and Horner trying to manage the damage behind the scenes as the situation spiralled out of control in public.
So Ed, as I mentioned, you're in that scrum, you're stood behind Marco, you're looking at him very sternly, I would say.
What do you make of his role in all of this?
Was it him that really caused the problem here?
One thing there seems to be unity on from everyone involved in this chaotic situation looking back years later is that Red Bull definitely handled it badly in public.
Newey admitted that in his book.
Webber felt that no one really knew how to handle a scenario that effectively played out in front of a global TV audience.
Which perhaps explains why the story just becomes a runaway train in the days following the race.
Webber wrote a column for the Telegraph in the UK and appeared in an official Red Bull video talking about it.
Red Bull released a Q&A with Horner and in that Q&A,
And in a subsequent BBC interview, Horner tried to repair the damage that had been caused by Marco.
Now, he said in a Red Bull Q&A that Marco now agreed it was a racing incident after looking at all the facts that weren't available immediately after the race.
And to the BBC, he said it was a mistake for any blame to have been put specifically on Webber.
Horner added, the problem is in the heat of the moment, immediately after an event, a couple of opinions were made without sight of all the facts.