Who was to blame for Vettel-Webber clash?

Red Bull’s hopes of a 1-2 finish disappeared in Turkey when Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber made contact on lap 40. Who do you think was at fault? Watch the smash on BBC Sport’s website and tell us what you think.

What do you think?

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Vettel definetly, i can see now why they call him mini-schumi.

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both drivers clearly did’nt leave any room for each other maybe vettel should have gone done the right like jenson did

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Vettel…in the seconds before, you can see him jerk the wheel to the right a couple of times; moving him rightwards (word?) AWAY from the edge, but into Webber’s space.

If he’d stayed straight, MAYBE Webber would’ve backed off, but they probably would’ve tangled and DNF’d anyway…

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Lol Newey’s reaction is so funny when he watches the red bull spinning on tv.

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90% Vettel’s Fault
10% Webber’s
But what’s the point of being in a “team” when you do that to your team mate? Mark didn’t have to deviate from his line, but if he had, he may have scored 15 points, instead of 10… And Red Bull may have been leading the constructors…

I’m an Aussie, but still, part of me says that Mark should have given him some room…

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Surely all vettel needed to do was wait till he was past webber before moving across. He just timed it wrong.

Any time you go up the inside like that you’re going to have a slightly tighter line for the corner and the guy you overtook is going to try and sit on your gearbox, get a better exit, then try and retake the position at the next corner or two.

Webber didn’t do anything wrong, he left vettel room and then it was up to vettel to make the move stick. Attempting to push webber wide at that speed at that point was a mistake, webber was never going to avoid that.

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said: “Vettel should knock on his own head.”

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Vettel. Simples.

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Everyone who thinks that Vettel did it deliberately is talking rubbish. Why the hell would he do it deliberately? He knows how easy it is to spin an F1 car, he wouldn’t knowingly crash into Webber, because he would know he would spin. It was his fault (as rud380y said, you can see him jerk to the right), but the idea that is was deliberate is just ridiculous.

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vettel definately, webber didnt have to let him past it was up to vettel to make the move stick

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Have we got the start of a potential Senna/Prost-like rivalry I wonder?

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They are both too blame. Vettel thinking Mark would back off so he could turn and Mark realizing he needed to look at his sides.

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obviously its vettel he took webber’s position instead of going straigth he goes to his right……

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Webber. If Vettel didn’t try to overtake, sooner or later Hamilton would have gone through since Webber was slowing down the whole bunch. Of course it was an agressive move by Vettel, but they were approaching a left-hander, so he had to go over to the right. I really don’t get why Webber was driving in the middle of the road. Even when Vettel is along side him he doesn’t give way.
And of course the race-engineer who should have told Webber to let him through.

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What a shame that Christian Horner has to come out and blame Webber. Just shows he is not really the team principle, try Austria for that. Anyone with any knowledge of Motor Sport can quite easily see who was to blame for this. Unfortunately, Schumacher got away with it for years, so why not Vettel? It’s very pleasing to see that Lewis is naturally so much more gifted than Seb.

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100% vettel. He drove into mark

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Both.

Webber for not giving Vettel room once he was alongside.

Vettel for turning in on Webber prematurely.

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Vettel, don’t be a typical F1 premadonna. Ceska televize-HA;)

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It was totally Vettel’s fault. As you can see in the replay, Webber turned slightly right before the accident, while Vettel’s car rammed into him. I don’t know what nonsense is filling Vettel’s head, but he is certainly in the wrong.

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Both….Webber should’ve given his team-mate room under the circumstances.
Vettel for turning in on Webber.

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….watch at 42 seconds how mark drifts back left….both all the way

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…watch at 1:01 you can see vettel turn loads to the right.

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exactly…..hence why i said BOTH

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That was just dome what vettel did to webber but i wasent mad i was happy because michael got 4th.

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colpa di Vettel!!!

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