Red Bullshit

Phil: I don't think we are the only voices out there in cyberspace sticking up for Mark. But we are the only ones to have published that birthday card photo.

Anyone with half a brain, and Eddie Jordan, can see Vettel caused the accident. Anyone except Red Bull, of course. Although he has since tried to backpedal, Christian Horner is on record as saying that, 'it is important that they [Vettel and Webber] give each other a bit more respect and concede if one has got a run on the other'. The implication is that Red Bull are, or were, blaming Webber. A cynic might be tempted to suggest Red Bull see Vettel as 'their man', and Webber as a Barrichello to Vettel's Schumacher, a driver who can be relief upon to pick up plenty of points for the constructors' title without doing anything silly. Never mind Mark, there will always be a place for you on the I Was Having a Blog sofa.

My co-blogger ('teammate' is a bit of a dirty word right now) pointed out one of those historical ironies which I'd missed. Earlier on in the season, we questioned the widsom of McLaren putting two world champions in the same team, pointing out that the last time they'd done it, it had all ended in disaster. Well, maybe not disaster, seeing as they won both titles four years on the trot, but certainly in a certain gravel trap at Suzuka. The irony, of course, is that Lewis and Jenson seem to be managed their professional rivalry perfectly fine, and it's Red Bull who are on the verge of civil war. It's not even as if Red Bull can say they've fallen out over the spoils like McLaren did: it's McLaren, after all, who are now leading the constructors' title race.

Without wanting to sound too much like a back-slapping session for McLaren, it's easy to forget that Turkey was actually a 1-2 for the Brits. What's more, another British driver, Dario Franchitti, won the Indy 500 on the same day. A good day for the Brits, I think.