09/11/2010
NEWS STORY
Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz has dismissed talk of his team using team orders in Sunday's season finale, insisting that the Austrian outfit will not "manipulate" race results like Ferrari.
Other than Alonso crashing out or suffering a technical failure it would appear that team orders will be necessary on Sunday if a Red Bull driver is to take the championship.
However, speaking to Austrian newspaper Kliene Zeitung, Mateschitz insists that this is not what he wants to see.
"Let the two drivers race and whatever will be will be," he said. "If Alonso wins we will have been unlucky."
"I predict a Hollywood ending," he continued, "with the worst case scenario being that we don't become champion. In which case we'll do it next year. But our philosophy stays the same because this is a sport and it must remain a sport.
"We don't manipulate things like Ferrari do," he added. "The whole world condemned them after what they did in Hockenheim. We have turned out to look like idiots because we have not acted in this way. But we have never even thought about it as long as both our drivers remain in the hunt for the championship.
"So a second place under correct circumstances might be better than a win on grounds of orders and confirmations."
In terms of laps completed, Alonso leads the way having completed over 99% of all race laps this season. Indeed, his team has only failed to finish twice this season, Alonso crashing out in Belgium and Felipe Massa crashing in Japan.