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Vettel thought 'f**k you' - Multi 21 vs Webber

"Vettel thought 'f**k you'" - Multi 21 vs Webber

09-08-2018 17:27

Remember the words "multi 21"? It's that classic team order between Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber in 2013. Let's not forget, Webber was left feeling pretty pissed off on the podium! Today, Christian Horner has shed some light on it.

"Multi 21" meant that car number two (Webber) would stay ahead of car number one (Vettel) for the rest of the race. But at the 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix, Vettel went against this order and overtook his Australian team-mate with 13 laps to go.

Horner has confirmed he thinks Vettel performed the manoeuvre to dish out some revenge. The Red Bull team boss talks us through his thoughts on the incident.

"It probably culminated at the end of 2012 when Sebastian was fighting Alonso for the championship. "Mark squeezed him up against the wall on the start of the race in Brazil in the championship decider that ultimately resulted in him getting turned around by Bruno Senna and blah, blah, blah," Horner told F1's Beyond the Grid podcast.

"Sebastian was hugely angry about that because we'd discussed it before the race that Mark wasn't in the championship. It was 'do everything possible to support your team-mate' and that day he chose - instinct kicked in - it was probably totally foreign to him to think 'I don't want to support this guy'.

"But then there was a hangover of that that led into Malaysia, literally two races later, split by about five months.

"So then you've got a situation where you've got Mark in the car ahead, Sebastian on new tyres in the car behind. Tyres were pretty fragile, we're telling them 'Right, hold position'.

"Sebastian thought 'fuck you'."

We just love it when things get tense between teammates. And don't forget, these two crashed in 2010!