Red Bull has stepped up its attack on the FIA after Sunday’s German grand prix.<\/p>\n
After stewards demoted Sebastian Vettel from second to fifth place for his late-race pass on Jenson Button, Dr Helmut Marko admitted it had left an “aftertaste”.<\/p>\n
On Monday, he suggested the governing body often applies a “double standard”, punishing some for identical infractions and not unnamed others.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Red Bull-owned Austrian television Servus TV, the energy drink company’s motor racing chief said the Vettel penalty was like “the death penalty for stealing chickens”.<\/p>\n
Jean-Eric Vergne, a rookie selected by Marko for Red Bull’s secondary team Toro Rosso, agreed that Vettel only left the circuit because he was forced wide by Button.<\/p>\n
“In Sebastian’s place I would have done exactly the same,” the Frenchman said.<\/p>\n
Marko also suggested the FIA ‘forgot’ to warn Red Bull that simply letting Button re-pass could have saved Vettel the much harsher post-race time penalty.<\/p>\n
“That warning did not come,” he revealed.<\/p>\n
Some F1 insiders suspect there could be more to the recent ‘FIA versus Red Bull’ wrangling.<\/p>\n
In Germany’s Bild newspaper, it is noted that “In formula one, it is no secret that Bernie Ecclestone is on Red Bull’s side”.<\/p>\n
And the F1 chief executive is “the archenemy of FIA boss Jean Todt”.<\/p>\n
At present, the sport’s most powerful pair are arguing about the vital and lucrative Concorde Agreement.<\/p>\n
Writing in Der Spiegel newspaper, journalist Ralf Bach also referred to the behind-the-scenes “power struggle”, and the fact that Ecclestone runs Red Bull by “remote control”.<\/p>\n
Vettel has vowed to do his best to give stewards no possible reason to punish him this weekend in Hungary.<\/p>\n
“I will be careful to do nothing that could jeopardise the result,” said the German.<\/p>\n
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