Horner hopes this will not happen again during Turkish GP
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- GPblog.com
Christian Horner, team boss of Red Bull, is not only looking ahead to Turkey's GP this weekend, but also backwards to see what lessons his team has learned from previous stints at the Istanbul Park Circuit, and then in particular to the 2010 race.
In his column on the official Red Bull Racing website Redbull.com, Horner analyses that race, when his team was represented on the track by Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber. During the race, the two Red Bulls give away their one-two position by driving in on each other. One is out, and the other finishes third.
“That day was one of the most frustrating”, says Horner. “You are looking at a one-two finish and it goes to a third-place and you've given your nearest rival a maximum score.
“Just two weeks earlier, we had finished one-two in Monaco. It was the highlight for the Team at that point and then two weeks later, we had one car in the fence and the other car wounded and only finishing third.”
Cooling down
Horner then says he was done to let his two drivers cool off: “After that race, we took the two of them to meet the children at Great Ormond Street Hospital to bring in a sense of perspective. It was so intense between the two, it was important to show that sometimes in life there are other challenges that are way more important.”