Red Bull accuse FIA over Safety Car Conspiracy

Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull should tread carefully in accusing the FIA of a conspiracy to enliven last weekend's Valencia race.

That is the view of Hans-Joachim Stuck, the president of the German motor sport association DMSB.

After Vettel retired at Valencia from a commanding lead, the reigning world champion and his team's Dr Helmut Marko suggested the FIA called the safety car period chiefly to close up the field.

"Vettel was too far ahead and so the field was brought back together," said Marko, doubting the safety car was needed to clear the track of debris.

Stuck however warned "Herr Vettel" to think in future before making accusations that could be interpreted as "unsportsmanlike conduct" -- behaviour that could draw the ire of the governing FIA.

"Sebastian Vettel should learn to be a good loser," he told Germany's Yahoo Eurosport.

"It was clear there was debris on the circuit, representing a danger of puncture to the other cars. For that reason, the safety car was justified," he said.

Stuck also scotched Vettel's claim that the safety car period caused his Red Bull to fail.

"I don't think driving slowly behind a pace car can be the cause of a failure, otherwise all the other cars would fail also.

"If the Red Bull car overheats because of the safety car then it is designed wrong," the former F1 driver insists.

Source: Motorsport.com

Bad move by Red Bull he may draw the ire Hamilton got last season so endless penalties could be coming his way if keeps it up

Very daft to openly voice this. Besides, what was he worried about, after the first 2 laps of the race he was 4 second ahead or something like that. so should have had no prorblem from pulling away from the field. Besides i thought he enjoyed challenges - or is that "challenges" where he's gauranteed to win

Eh?

Helmut Marko is the one who thought the safety car was deployed to deliberately bunch up the field...why is Stuck saying Vettel needs to tread carefully?

While I don't claim to know why running behind the safety car could cause an alternator failure, we have seen in the past that engines can blow up through overheating, once the SC comes in and they're suddenly back up to race pace.

I suppose we'll never know for sure but I don't see anything wrong with what Vettel said...after all Grosjean retired soon after with the same problem.

As other thread... i misread it as being vettel pointing the figure. Sorry.

They should be pointing the finger at JE Vergne........seriously poor driving and then racing round back to the pits and destroying his car and littering tyre debris everywhere. Amateurish. I think we can safely say Vergne will not be replacing Webber next season.

The reason why RedBull were unhappy is because they've got something illegal on the car again.

Won't surprise me at all. Remember Vettel saying, yes, we made the right decision.

Another illegal gadget installed.

A world champion who hates racing other people. What a joke

Belgarion of Riva wrote:The reason why RedBull were unhappy is because they've got something illegal on the car again.

Won't surprise me at all. Remember Vettel saying, yes, we made the right decision.

Another illegal gadget installed.

A world champion who hates racing other people. What a joke

I firmly believe this too, when you are that much quicker than the field then questions must be asked, it looks like another blown defuser device

Sebastien Vettel has been placed on probation by the FIA

Vettel has spit his dummy out.

Why can't I have a car that is a second faster than everyone <wah>

Belgarion of Riva wrote:The reason why RedBull were unhappy is because they've got something illegal on the car again.

Won't surprise me at all. Remember Vettel saying, yes, we made the right decision.

Another illegal gadget installed.

A world champion who hates racing other people. What a joke

Must be it just must be the case... the start of the valencia race was incredible. By the first corner Vettel was a 1-1.5 seconds ahead of them.

Well, if anyone turns up any proof, be sure to post it here.

Red Bull were forced to change the floor of their car before the Canadian GP and there have been no rumour or accusations that I have seen since then.