Sebastian Vettel reportedly believes his teammate Mark Webber should have kept a lid on his unhappiness at Silverstone last weekend.

Although the controversial recipient of Webber's front wing in Britain, and accused of being favoured by his Red Bull bosses, the 23-year-old German's voice has been the quietest throughout the latest saga.

At Silverstone he hinted that Australian Webber had shown his "true face", adding: "The most important thing is the atmosphere within the team. We have a really strong car and the only thing that can stop us is ourselves."

The implication is that Webber should have saved his grievances about the front wing so that it could be handled internally.

Germany's Bild newspaper now quotes him as saying: "I'm brought up to show respect for one another."

Referring to the wing saga, he added: "Such things do not belong in the public, they should be handled internally by the team."

Former driver David Coulthard, still a consultant for the energy drink owned team, agrees that Red Bull would have preferred if the matter had not gone public.

"Red Bull would doubtless prefer it if Mark aired his grievances in private," he wrote in his Telegraph column.

Nick Fry, chief executive of the Mercedes team, warns that Red Bull must quickly make clear to its drivers that they are not in charge.

"Drivers are a vital part of the team but they're not the team and that needs to be clear," he is quoted by the Sun newspaper.

"As soon as the lunatics start running the asylum you have big problems," he added.



Source: GMM

 

easy to say when you're not the one being shafted, and its not like the media wouldn't have found out about this anyway

 

While it was definitely in Red Bull's best interest to keep this whole thing under wraps, I understand where Mark was coming from when he vented his frustrations. Hopefully they can work everything out soon and continue forward towards the championship.

 

So drivers are lunatics?

 

Precisely.

 

Riiiight, just like Vettel should have kept his "cuckoo" hand gestures to himself when he moved over on his teammate.

F*** Vettel.

 

I'd be shocked if these two were still teammates next season.

Schumi to Red Bull

 

Kobayashi to Red Bull would be a BLAST!

Seriously, if the FIA would just allow teams to run customer cars, the budget drama, the cheating drama, the teammate drama, etc. would be GREATLY diminished, and we might have a chance at some drama ON THE TRACK.