Blame for Sunday afternoon’s accident between the two Red Bull drivers has been placed firmly at the feet of Mark Webber by the team’s motorsport advisor, Helmut Marko, who insists that Vettel had to make the move on the Australian or risk being overtaken by Lewis Hamilton who was running less than half a second behind him.

"He [Vettel] was already ahead, at least two metres ahead, and there was a corner to the left side coming, so he had to go for the line," he was quoted as saying in Autosport.  "He cannot brake on the dirt because for sure he knows what happens. It wasn't a situation where we were racing each other.”

“We were under enormous pressure from the McLarens – they were much faster on the straights so we had to gain our advantage in the corners. He had to attack otherwise he would have got overtaken by Hamilton – it would have been completely different if the McLarens were 10-seconds behind, but that wasn't the case."

That said however, he insists that both drivers are treated the same way and that the team should have been thought first rather than which driver would actually get the victory as a one two was still very possible. Now the plan is to make sure something like this never happens again.

"We are handling our team and both drivers in the same way. "Vettel was under such pressure and if such a situation comes up – you have to look after the team. We still could have been 1-2. But it was unnecessary the whole situation. We will talk with everybody quite clearly to make it not happen again."