Mark Webber has reacted to comments made by six-time world champion, Michael Schumacher after Sunday’s European Grand Prix, the Jaguar racer defending his actions in the race when the two almost collided.
Webber pitted for the final time on lap 37 but when he rejoined, he incurred the wrath of the Ferrari driver who was coming up to lap him, the two almost touching at the first corner.
Schumacher spoke out about the incident in the post-race media conference, stating that he was shocked by the Aussie drivers behaviour…
“I don’t know what was going on there with Mark when he came out of the pit lane. I went past him and he must have seen what car was in front of him and as I was turning in suddenly, in the sort of side line, very late, I saw him flying into me and I was really shocked,” Michael said. “Fortunately I could open the door. It was just this little moment of me not seeing him and he would have crashed into me. I don’t know what was going through his head, what he was trying to achieve there, but that was a bit of a moment.”
Webber responded to Michael’s claims stating that he had the situation under complete control and he would repeat the manoeuvre if he was ever in the same position again ….
“I had the situation totally under control and I made the apex at turn one fine. The timing was very difficult for me,” he said. “I knew Michael was there but had I totally cooperated with him, it could have comprised my own battle with Giancarlo for seventh spot. So, the best thing for me to do was to do my out lap as normal and let Michael through when I got the blue flags to do so. I would do exactly the same again.”
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