Red Bull Owner Prefers Losing Title than Issuing Team Orders

Red Bull's owner Dietrich Mateschitz insisted once again that he and his team will continue to develop a no-team-order strategy in Formula One this season, no matter the circumstances. In other words, he'd rather see the world title go to someone else than employ team orders in order to help one of his own racers walk away with the F1 crown from Abu Dhabi.

“To interfere with the drivers was never a possibility for us. The whole world condemned Ferrari after what they did in Hockenheim, but we have turned out as idiots because we did not act in this way,” said Mateschitz.

“We never even thought about it as long as both our drivers remain in the hunt for the championship. It is not assured that Alonso will always be the lucky one. Abu Dhabi will be incredibly exciting and provide highest tension,” added the man who sustains financially the Milton-Keynes based team.

“Sunday night we will know if we clinched the other 50 percent and have been successful or not. A second place under correct circumstances might be better than a win on grounds of orders and confirmations.”

Nevertheless, the Austrian businessman admitted he wants the drivers' title just as well as he wanted the manufacturers' crown, and is still waiting to celebrate fully the end of a successful year in 2010.

“It is a wonderful, sensational feeling to have won the constructors' title. We consequently worked on this for five years now and we are all glad it happened. This championship means satisfaction and joy for us. We missed out by a whisper last year, now it worked. But we have only achieved 50 percent of our goal. The other 50 percent hopefully will emerge next Sunday,” concluded the Red Bull boss.