Dietrich Mateschitz insists that team orders will play no role in whether a Red Bull driver secures the energy drink-owned team’s first title in 2010.<\/p>\n
A myriad of pundits believe Mark Webber, with a higher points tally, should now be backed by his teammate Sebastian Vettel in order to chase down the lead of Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso with two races to go.<\/p>\n
But Austrian billionaire Mateschitz told Der Spiegel newspaper that there will be no team orders.<\/p>\n
“This is a sport and the best should win,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Power, politics, manipulation and so on should be kept as far away as possible.<\/p>\n
“The game is ‘come and get me, if you can’, and not ‘let me through because I’m better’,” insisted Mateschitz. “Racing must remain racing.”<\/p>\n
And their points tallies aside, he is adamant that the events about to happen on the circuit will determine whether Webber or Vettel triumphs.<\/p>\n
“They are different in personality, but equally fast,” he said.<\/p>\n
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