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No teamwork as Bulls lock horns

SIlverstone - Frustrated Mark Webber admitted he ignored team orders not to overtake his Red Bull team mate Sebastian Vettel during the final stages of Sunday's 2011 British GP.

The 34-year-old Australian caught Vettel in the final laps and, despite instructions from his team telling him to "maintain the gap", he tried several unsuccessful times to overtake before settling for third behind winner Fernando Alonso.

Webber, who famously remarked "not bad for a No.2 driver" after winnint at Silverstone in 2010, said he was unhappy with the team's decision and decided to ignore them.

'OF COURSE I IGNORED THEM'

"I'm not fine with it, no," he said. "If Fernando (Alonso) retires on the last lap we are fighting for the win.

"Of course I ignored the team because I wanted to try to get a place. Seb was doing his best, I was doing my best. I wasn't going to crash with anyone. I try to do my best with the amount of one-way conversation I was having - I was trying to do my best to pass the guy in front."

Webber played down talk of another favouritism row and suggested that had the situation been reversed Vettel would have responded in the same way.

Asked if he was feeling like the No.2 driver again, he replied: "Not really. Four or five laps to go, they started to chat to me about holding my position. I wanted the points but I also wanted to get some more points. I just wanted to race to the end and I'm sure if it had been the other way round it would have been like that as well."

Defending Drivers' champion Vettel, 24, said he understood why the team asked them not to race each other but conceded that he had enjoyed the battle.

'MARK WAS FASTER'

"I try to stay ahead, nothing wrong with that," he said. "If you have the cars quite isolated in second and third, with the first guy away and the fourth guy pretty far away, from the team's point of view there is no point racing and doing something stupid.

"The difference between second and third is not huge but we naturally try to race. I tried to hold position. I was struggling, Mark was faster and then there was the chequered flag."

Vettel added that he thought the situation had been blown wildly out of proportion. "To me, at this stage it is quite amusing. If it was the other way around, there is no point - of course I would like to overtake Mark at that stage, so no point trying to do something stupid. I don't see why there is such a fuss."

Vettel finished second and now holds an 80-point lead in the title race. Webber is second on 124 and Alonso 12 points further back.
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