Marko: Nowhere does it say we can’t use regulations in our favour
26 July, 2012
Helmut Marko with Sebastian Vettel
Jul.26 (GMM) Helmut Marko is critical not only of the moves to change the engine mapping rules mid-season, but also of rival teams who lobbied the FIA and then refused to own up at a meeting earlier this week.
In the wake of the Hockenheim controversy about Red Bull’s reportedly legal traction control and engine exhaust blowing settings, F1′s governing body on Wednesday issued a rule clarification that means the team must revert to a more conventional setup in Hungary this weekend and beyond.
The move follows the FIA revealing its concern about the Red Bull solution at Hockenheim, but admitting that the wording of the existing rules made it powerless to stop it.
Wednesday’s clarification closes the loophole.
“We were not cleared [at Hockenheim] because we falsified the evidence, but because we were within the regulations,” Marko, Red Bull’s motor racing consultant, told Servus TV.
He railed against overnight rule changes, “If something is green, you can’t then make it blue. Nowhere does it say that we can’t use the regulations in our favour.”
He also criticised the behaviour of Red Bull’s rivals, who according to speculation lobbied the FIA for the change but were then ‘silent’ in Monday’s technical meeting in London.
“Again and again, there are people who do such a thing. I’m talking of the other teams,” said Marko. “Then on Monday, when we could have addressed it professionally and objectively, it is not even addressed.”
Red Bull is also still annoyed about Sebastian Vettel’s demotion from second to fifth at Hockenheim for his illegal pass on Jenson Button.
Marko has already referred to a “double standard” sometimes employed by the FIA when it comes to penalties, and now team boss Christian Horner says he has reviewed footage of Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso’s pole lap at Hockenheim.
“On the last corner he was off the circuit with all four wheels,” Horner is quoted by Auto Motor und Sport, intimating that the Spaniard also broke the rules for advantage but was not penalised.
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Horner:
you need to understand the pass Vettel made was during the race for his upper hand.
Alonso didn’t pass NO one for any advantage. He went wide because the track was wet and by doing that it gave him no hydro plating/aqua plating in the corners which reuslted for the fastest pole.
He did not pass anyone like your SON Vettel did on a dry circuit when Horner himself on radio message to Vettel said “keep on the track be smart” or something like that.
Referring to him driving wide and off track whilst catching to up to Button for a pass.
Helmut Marko is doing more damage to Red Bull as a brand and Vettel as he is filling his head with BULL.
Helmut Marko needs his head looking at big time.
The brand needs to get rid of him have him locked in an institution!
Cheaters Never Prosper
“On the last corner he was off the circuit with all four wheels,” Horner is quoted by Auto Motor und Sport, intimating that the Spaniard also broke the rules for advantage but was not penalised.
Stupid.
ok then every driver should be penalised since at one time during the race they had all four wheels off the circuit and gained an advantage.
Going off the track in qualifying is not an advantage, but going off the track during a race to pass someone that is an advantage. So shushhh Horner! Although, even as a Ferrari fan I must say that that 20 second penalty for Vettel seemed a little too harsh indeed.
What if good ol’ Webbo won the 2012 title (far chance though)?
Will the FIA still want to penalise RBR? Funny though, Webber hasn’t been penalised for anything yet apart from the gearbox change…or maybe because he knows how to stay out of trouble
The strategy of select rivals may be to insure RBR cannot win the championships in 2012 – even if they win it – through future protests to disqualify every race finish preceding each FIA clarification that reversed prior tech approvals. It doesn’t take much of an imagination to interpret the continual attacks on the team and Vettel, and politics behind the flip flopping of the FIA could be part of a broader off-track strategy.
Red Bull are sore losers. Why Hornes didn’t look at Alonso’s lap before the race? The regulation were there before… oh yeah, because he didn’t think he gained an unfair advantage! Vettel did, so make you hearts at ease Red Bull Racing funs.
And if the wording of the regulation allows the teams to go against the spirit of that same rules then the FIA is right to change it in mid-season…Marko, you got away last year with it but no more.
Mark Webber, he made the biggest mistake of his career not to go , even for one year only, to Ferrari. After the German Gp I’m sure he realised that too or maybe even before. Go have a look at his bodylanguage and what he does with his no. 2 baseball cap in front of the cameras at the post quali interview.
All this bashing towards Red Bull reminded of the period between 2000 and 2004 when Ferrari were on series of winning streak….everybody hated them…..FIA did everything they could to end Ferrari winning form, and now Red Bull gets this kind of treatment…
If it’s within the regulation, I don’t see the problem…why all this BS? Limiting innovation, utter BS…
Marko and Vettel both do more harm to RedBull then anything else. Vettel with his finger and attitude and Marko just because he always acts like a horses rear end.
You can bet Marks car will not perform the rest of the year so that Vettel can catch him in the points and pass him. How dare Webber over take their beloved Vettel in the points.
Vettel, Hulmut, and Horner, they are Formula One’s Three Stooges!
Yes, FIA has to stop this behaviour. First FIA imagining there were illegal open holes in the floor of the RB car – raced for several races. Now they are imaging RB is running illegal traction control and of throttle blowing to help Vettel drive a F1 car fast… Believe it or not, but people are requesting RB to give back those points gained with the immaginative illegal parts! Surely RB would have gaind those extra poinsts anyway!! Of course Vettel can drive a car very fast without traction control and exhaust pushing the rear axel down.
@Wardski:
More like the FIA want to ensure Red Bull don’t have a dirty advantage.
Quite the opposite. RBR are pi$$ed that the FIA is doing everything it can to ensure RBR do not win this year’s title…
Horner is talking BS as always. Vettel was penalized for overtaking off the track, not for running wide on a qualy lap like Alonso.
I guess they’re pissed about Ferrari’s resurgence.