Christian Horner has hit back at claims Red Bull were slowed down at Spa-Francorchamps due to succumbing to the flexible wing saga.

McLaren’s Jenson Button had said before leaving Belgium that the pace of the previously dominant RB6 had been “affected” by the more stringent deflection test, with the new floor tests to possibly have “even more of an effect” at Monza next weekend.

Button’s boss Martin Whitmarsh, and Mercedes’ Ross Brawn, also said they thought the front wings on the Red Bull and Ferrari cars were flexing less visibly than they had in Hungary earlier in August.

“I can categorically tell you that they are the same wings (at Spa) that ran in Hungary a month ago,” Red Bull team boss Horner is quoted on Wednesday by the Telegraph.

“Whether that is the same for our competitors I can’t say,” he added.

Horner suggested it was the McLaren cars that were using different wing designs in Belgium.

“I would be very interested to know — and you might find it was a silver wing that was most flexible (at Spa),” he said.

However, a video doing the rounds on the internet appears to show Sebastian Vettel’s front wing moving visibly in and out of the slipstream in the moments before he crashed into Button.

Everything looked in the run-off after a dull Hungarian Grand Prix, finally, was the overwhelming dominance of Red Bull and the Hungaroring is not known for his overtaking. But in the end it was just Sebastian Vettel, who could benefit from the pole position starts once more not the chance to get the victory. It was triggered by a safety car phase, which led to some incidents in the field.

The victory secured instead teammate Mark Webber ahead of Fernando Alonso in a Ferrari. For the Australians it was the fourth win of the season. Vettel was on the end of third parties was allowed, after all happy that he managed to make up properly because of a failure of Lewis Hamilton at the British soil.
Also in the points came Felipe Massa in a Ferrari in fourth position ahead of Vitaly Petrov (Renault), Nico Hulkenberg (Williams), Pedro de la Rosa (Sauber), Jenson Button (McLaren-Mercedes), Kamui Kobayashi (Sauber) and Rubens Barrichello in Williams. Michael Schumacher was in eleventh without points, as Sebastien Buemi to twelfth and Timo Glock in 16th position

Not the finish alongside Lewis Hamilton came Robert Kubica (Renault), Nico Rosberg (Mercedes), Adrian Sutil (Force India) and Jaime Alguersuari (Toro Rosso).

Fernando Alonso got off to a strong start to the Hungarian Grand Prix, Mark Webber grabbed and placed first next to Sebastian Vettel, was temporarily in front, but had to re-sort in the first corner in second place. Caught a bad start, however Jenson Button, 15, on the Rank came back. Jaime Alguersuari had his Toro Rosso with an engine failure leave already after one round.

The order after the second round: Sebastian Vettel in front of Fernando Alonso, Mark Webber, Felipe Massa, Lewis Hamilton, Vitaly Petrov, Nico Rosberg, Robert Kubica, Rubens Barrichello and Nico Hulkenberg on the tenth. Adrian Sutil ahead of Michael Schumacher twelfth. Jenson Button 15th, Sébastien Buemi ranked 18th Timo Glock 21st After five laps Vettel had been exactly five seconds ahead of Alonso.

The distances for the first ten laps before Alonso Vettel 9.0 seconds, 10.0 ahead of Webber, 12.3 ahead of Massa, 13.8 in Hamilton, 18.2 before Petrov, before Rosberg 24.5, 25.3 before Kubica, Barrichello to 27.0 and 28.3 seconds on Hülkenberg in tenth place. Tenth Sutil (+30.4 seconds), Schumacher 13th (+32.5), Button 14th (+34.5), Buemi 17th (+38.8), Glock 21st (+54.7).

Already in the 15th Jenson Button came round and Vitantonio Liuzzi in the box. Liuzzi had lost part of his front wing, which was located on the right track. The race then sent the safety car on the track, which led to a lot of pit stops. Vettel responded here in the last second and bumped over the curb of the pit lane entrance.

Adrian Sutil in the pit lane and Robert Kubica collided with each other. The Renault team had had his driver pull out, although Sutil was on the march. While Kubica was able to continue the journey, Sutil had to retire with a broken front suspension. Also for Nico Rosberg the race was over – he lost a right rear wheel, which was apparently not tightened properly.

The order after the first stops: Webber (without stopping) before Vettel, Alonso, Hamilton, Massa, Barrichello (without stopping), Petrov Hulkenberg, de la Rosa, Button and Schumacher on the eleventh place. Buemi 13, Glock 17th Kubica and 21st

In the 24th Round brim over the events. First, Robert Kubica won by the race after the incident in the pits a 10-second stop-and-go penalty aufgebrummt, which he served immediately before he turned off the car in the pits.

In the same moment the world championship leader Lewis Hamilton’s McLaren-Mercedes had problems with park next to the track. In addition, the stewards announced an investigation against Sebastian Vettel, who obviously had not respected during the safety car period, the correct distance to the Safety Car.
In the 29th Round the stewards announced that Vettel must complete a drive-through because he had left too large a distance to the safety car. In the 32th Round of the German completed his furiously gesticulating through penalty – and went behind Alonso and in front of Massa back on track.

The order after 33 laps: Webber 16.1 seconds ahead of Alonso, 20.2 ahead of Vettel, 22.5 ahead of Massa, Barrichello in front of 39.6, 40.7 before Petrov, 42.4 before Hulkenberg, 44.2 before de la Rosa, 46.1 and 47.1 ahead of Button before Kobayashi tenth on the field. Michael Schumacher finished eleventh (+48.8), Glock 16th (+1 Lap).

In the 42nd Webber came round with more than 23.7 seconds ahead of Alonso for his stop – and turned loose in the lead back on track. While Webber took the new tires a new fastest lap after another, Vettel managed to catch up on Alonso, and go round after round in his slipstream.

In the 56th Round came the fifth-placed Rubens Barrichello to his first stop. The Williams driver went behind Michael Schumacher in eleventh place back on the track, was in the 60th Round, however, caught up with the Germans.

The distances after 60 rounds: Webber 21.2 seconds ahead of Alonso, Vettel before 21.9, 27.4 on Massa, 71.7 to Petrov, 75.2 Hülkenberg before, to 77.5 before de la Rosa, 80.6 Button, Kobayashi and 81.6 before a lap before Schumacher. In the 66th Lap Schumacher overtook Barrichello at the end of the start-finish straight, where the German pushed the Brazilians brutal towards pit wall, whereupon Barrichello claimed by radio the black flag for Schumacher. The stewards are investigating the incident at the end of the race.

When Mark Webber in failed to overtake Heikki Kovalainen, the rear wheel of the Lotus drivers, met the Australian was just a passenger. His car lifted into the air, turned 180 degrees in the air rang with the cockpit down on the tarmac, turned 180 degrees again and then slid with even high speed into the tire barrier. The Red Bull driver was able to enter the car luckily unhurt on their own.

“Well, you always need two for a tango, right?” Webber said in an interview with the ‘BBC’. ‘In this incident we were both involved. I looked for the best wind shadow lookout to do the job and to pass him. He defended himself pretty hard, and inside, blocked suddenly become very aggressive.
“Finally, I was surprised by the fact, as he braked early,” said the experienced racer. “This is what caught me cold. It did not matter where I was, or how close I was driving in the slipstream, I still had everything under control.”

“This was a horrible incident. Obviously, I was surprised about what happened on the access to this curve. At first I thought, ‘Okay, it me pass’ can be, because the speed difference was of course enormous. Then he started, the door , zuzuschmeißen and he showed this little maneuver. I thought ‘What’s he doing there? “.”

“Yes, he was slowed by the gas, or whatever. It turned out that this was the case 80 meters earlier than I had slowed down in the previous round. This means that this was the case in a different category than in the few laps before. “

Jos Verstappen thinks Sebastian Vettel should receive “the full blame” for the crash with Red Bull teammate Mark Webber in Turkey.

Dutchman Verstappen, 38, contested more than 100 grands prix until 2003, most famously as Michael Schumacher’s teammate at Benetton in the mid 90s.

He wrote in his latest column for De Telegraaf newspaper that Australian Webber was not at fault for the collision on lap 40 at Istanbul Park.

“Vettel had the momentum and the slipstream, but he then made a crucial error by moving quickly to the right and hitting his teammate,” Verstappen wrote in Italy, where he is accompanying his 12-year-old son Max at a kart event.

“Of course, Webber defended his lead, but that was his right.  Everyone races to win, and he gave more than enough space to Vettel, who should have driven straight ahead.”

Verstappen said it was wrong of Red Bull team bosses to criticise the behaviour of Webber, who had driven to the extremity of the circuit to defend the inside line for the forthcoming left-hand corner.

“Maybe it was a bit about politics, and I understand that some may prefer a young German talent to be champion, but Webber has done a good job.

“Now it’s up to the management to ensure that the incident is put in the past.  It is important that teammates can work with one another, but I assume that both Vettel and Webber are professional enough,” he added.

(GMM)