Formula One: ‘Webber will re-sign’

PARIS: Australian Mark Webber, centre of a furious ‘team orders’ row with his team chiefs during the British Grand Prix, will re-sign with Red Bull, the stable’s owner insisted. Webber, in a clearly faster car, decided to ignore instructions from the pit wall that he should not close in on second-placed Red Bull team-mate and championship leader Sebastian Vettel. Webber admitted he was furious and had not obeyed the orders as he fought to beat his team-mate, and will clearly need some convincing to stay with the team - 12 months earlier he had won at Silverstone and famously quipped “not bad for a number two driver” on his slowing down lap.



Published in The Express Tribune, July 14^th, 2011.